The document discusses recycling and its importance. It provides an introduction to recycling, defines recycling as the process of breaking down materials and reusing them instead of throwing them away. It then discusses the benefits of recycling such as reducing waste sent to landfills, saving natural resources, and saving energy. Specific examples are provided of how recycling aluminum and paper saves significant amounts of energy compared to producing materials from raw materials. The document also discusses how recycling reduces carbon emissions and how landfill levies encourage more sustainable production and consumption.

1. Report
Recycling & Its causes
Koya University
Faculty Of Engineering
Chemical Engineering Department - 1st
stage
Prepared by : Safeen Yaseen Ja’far
Administered by : Adnan Fattah
Khaleed

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Table Of Contents
Introduction 2
What is Recycling 3
Why Recycling is Important? 3
The Recycling Process 3
Benefits of Recycling 3
Causes of Recycling or why do Recycle 4
Save Energy 4
Reduces carbon emissions 5
Appropriately priced landfill levies 6
Conclusion 7
References 8

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Introduction
From reprocessing in the Figurine Age toward modern optical categorization systems,
almost everything in our business has changed.
In a state of endless technical, financial and legal fruition, the business now makes
revenue worth 160 billion dollars besides staffs around 1.5 million people.
Specialist corporations are leaping up, consciousness is life high, expert salvaging tools
are existence perfected, new resources are secondhand each day and the procedure has
now advanced an essential part of our ordinary lives. Albeit we may reprocess accurately
throughout the year, there are still questions about recycling, which is really quite
understandable.
Where and when did it all start? How is it done on the other side of the world? Since when
have we recycled paper or used rubbish bins? What are your rights and duties on the
subject?
For a better idea of the challenges, click here to learn about its history, its legal
regulations, its various forms around the world, and its different business components.
All the answers to the questions you want to ask about this activity that began on our
planet more than 4,000 years ago, and is so successful, it doesn't look like coming to an
end any time soon.
By revealing the secrets of the first recycled pottery in Ancient Greece, or by taking a
glimpse inside the carts of 19th century Parisian rag-and-bone men, there is also a
fascinating journey through human history to be undertaken. And isn't that what really
counts?

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What’s Recycling?
Unless you have been happening another world for the last period, then you have possibly
heard of it. Salvaging is the procedure of contravention down and re-using supplies that
would else be fearful away as trash. Many societies and industries make it easy to
reprocess by insertion labeled bottles in the open for civic use, or provided that bins for
home and occupational owners who have curbside pickup. (Renkish, 2019)
Why Recycling is Important?
The welfares are far success and everyone gains when people adopt reprocessing as an
everyday habit. Whether it is a public effort to help redecorate a dirty neighborhood
street, or on a larger scale to help a business save hundreds to thousands of dollars on
waste management, the advantages of well-maintained salvaging program are endless.
(Renkish, 2019)
The Recycling Process
The recycling process involves 3 main steps, which form a circle or loop. They are:
(1) collecting the recyclables, (2) processing the recyclables and turning them into
recycled-content products, and (3) purchasing recycled products.
Benefits of Recycling
 Decreases the amount of waste sent to landfills and braziers.
 Saves natural goods such as timber, water and minerals.
 Growths monetary security by tapping a internal source of materials.
 Prevents effluence by dipping the need to collect new raw materials.
 Saves energy.
 Supports American industrial and conserves valuable resources.
(EPA, 2019)

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Causes of Recycling or why do Recycle
1. Save Energy
How recycling aluminum saves energy?
More than 100 billion aluminum cans are sold in the Amalgamated States each year, with
less than half being recycled. With the volume of energy it takes to make one virgin
aluminum can, 20 castoff cans can be manufactured. The course is fast and the energy
savings are astounding. Plus, aluminum can be cast-off indeterminately without
degrading! This is what makes aluminum recycling so effectual – there is nearly no need
to bring new aluminum supplies into the construction round if we just used the aluminum
that we already made!. (Harmony Enterprise, 2019)
In Figure (1) Below The energy savings happen when the paper, glass, metal and plastic
you and I recycled make their way back to a manufacturer to make new products.
Alumnium save 92% of energy, Copper save 90% of energy, Plastic save 87% of energy,
Paper save 68% of energy, Steel save 56% of energy, Glass save 34% of energy. (Kate
Baily, 2011)
Figure (1) Energy Saving by substanses (Kate Bailey, 2011)

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2. Reduces carbon emissions
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has described to the United Nation-
states that the Earth's environment system is undeniably getting radiator and concluded
that it is more than 90 percent likely that the accelerated warming of the past 50-60 years
is due to human contributions.
As the planes of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse vapors increase, more heat
is “trapped” in the earth's heaven and global infections rise. It causes substantial changes
in the timing and length of the seasons as well as the amount and frequency of
precipitation. Climate change can have properties on rising sea levels, flooding, droughts
or a range of other biome changes that affect life on earth.
How to Reduce CO2 Emissions in Industry? The Industry sector produces goods and raw
materials for everyday use, every single day. The orangery gasses that manufacturing
production emanates are split into two categories:
Direct Emissions: Glasshouse emissions that are twisted at the facility itself.
Indirect Emissions: Which are related with the capability's use of energy, but transpires
off-site.
In Figure (2) we showed ways to reduce carbon emissions Live car-free reduce 50% of
CO2, Replace gasoline with hybrid reduce 40% of CO2, Buy green energy reduce % of CO2,
Upgrade light bulbs reduce % of CO2, Wash clothes in cold water reduce % of CO2.
Figure (2) The top ways to reduce carbon emissions (Massimo Pigliucci, 2017)

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3. Appropriately priced landfill levies
Landfill levies are one of the most operative ways to increase the properties we recover
and encourage more sustainable making and consumption. Landfill levies are a cost put
on the mass of material likely to landfill. The cost of discarding waste in landfill comprises
the gate fee (set by the landfill operator) and the landfill levy (set by the state
government). Wrapper and product waste forsaken to landfill is recorded in three ways:
municipal waste (household), viable and engineering waste (offices, retailers and
manufacturers), and construction and devastation waste (building sites). (Jono La
Nauze, Kate Rogers, Karly Roolker, 2016)
In Figure (3) National Resource Recovery Targets. MSW represents household waste, C&I
represents commercial waste and C&D represents construction and demolition waste.
Since 2014, Victoria has aimed to maximise diversion without a headline target.
Figure (3) Diversion Rate(%)(MRA Consulting Group, October 2015)

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Conclusion
In conclusion, we learned a lot of explanations why recovering is imperative in our
municipal and specially at school. We educated about waste and how some leftover can
be reused or secondhand into other products. I hope that this class will stick by their
pledge to become scholars who are commited towards reusing in school and out of
school.
And remember... keeping biodegradable items inside the Recovering Loop keeps them
of out the landfills and reduces pollution. (Catherine Gros, Dominican University)
You have done a good task, now only you have to think what you can do to take care of
the environment. The fact of seafaring along web pages, has to do you to give you gutter
that is a good source where to look for facts. You have learned to be employed at group,
beholding for information with the companions, putting your opinions of covenant with
the others...
And recollect that always you will have the help of your friends!!!. We expect to have
found our more vital aim. To arouse to the conservational position of recycling.
Before tossing nothing we have to try to re-use it, and only when to re-use is not
imaginable we have to recycle. (Laura Hugas, Anna Payet, Diana Peralta, Rocío Pére 2019)

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