The document discusses the importance of recycling in schools. It outlines some of the key advantages of recycling, such as creating jobs as recycling increases and requiring less energy than extracting new resources. However, it also notes some disadvantages, such as the initial expense of setting up recycling programs. The document advocates for schools to install more recycling bins to encourage students to recycle and help protect the local and global environment. Recycling reduces pressure on non-renewable resources and helps conserve forests that provide wood and paper products.

1. HELP US,
SAVE, CONSERVE AND PROTECT THE PLANETS RESOURCES
Case Study
Recycling in schools
Citizen Project 2011/2012
Focuses on:
Advantages and Disadvantages of recycling; gives information on how recycling has progressed in
schools

2. Topic: Recycling Importance level HIGH
Advocacy: Schools should put out more bins and one recycling point
Contributing to help make the world a better place to live.
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantage Disadvantage
The recycling industry is expanding Although recycling has great
therefore it will create jobs as the economical advantages, it is slightly
level of recycling increases. expensive to start off with.
Recycling takes much less energy For
ecycling energy. What is the point in recycl
recycling our
example, recycling aluminium nails non-renewable resources when we
renewable
takes 95% less energy than mining and still have some reserves remaining.
processing new aluminium resources
resources.
There is a high level of loss in animal
biodiversity in places like the Amazon
because of the wood demands of
MEDC’s and by recycling our materials
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we can reduce the loss of biodiversity
Why is recycling important locally?
Recycling in schools will encourage children to recycle when outside of school
this will help the community get together and make strong bond this is
crucial when it comes to overcoming violence and bad behaviour on the
streets of London.
It is also very important for a local community to recycle because it help to
helps
protect their own environment and surroundings. This makes our communities
a safer and much friendlier place for future generations and us to live.
Why is recycling important on a global scale?
The reason why recycling is important nationally and globally is mainly because of
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the rates at which our non – renewable resources (fossil fuels) are running o at.
out
Fossil fuels are substances such as natural gas, crude oil, coal and uranium (nuclear).
Many of these resources are used in our everyday products that we throw away it
usually ends up in a land fill site; this has a particularly catastrophic impact on th
the
planet both visually and environmentally.
Paper comes from trees. Most of the wood and paper that we use comes from trees
in the Amazon rainforest located in brazil. MEDC’s have a very high demand for
paper and wooden furniture If we where to recycle all of them, then less trees
all
would have to be cut down, from the very few rainforests remain.
remain.`
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