4 types of recycling

1. 4 types of recycling By: Santiago Trujillo

2. 4 types • Paper • Aluminum • Glass • Plastic

3. Primary vs secondary • Primary recycling(closed loop recycling)- gathering the recycled material and putting it back into the same product • Secondary recycling(down cycling)- an case where material that is recycled is put into a different product

4. Post consumer waste • Post consumer external waste-Paper, paperboard, and tough wastes from retail stores, office buildings, homes, and so forth, after they have passed through their end-procedure as a consumer item. • pre consumer waste- waste from anything that you use.(ex. Paper towel. Toilet paper)

5. Composting methods for recycling solid waste materials • Reduce office paper waste • Use recycled paper, make double-sided copies • Replace hand towels and other disposables with hand dryers or cloth towel machines and reusable hardware

6. Recovery facility throughput • Throughput-a method for scientific experimentation, Using robotics, data processing and control software, liquid handling devices, and sensitive detectors

7. Burning vs. burying • Burning is setting fire waste (ex. Burning paper or wood etc…) • Burying is returning the waste into the earth (ex. person throwing an orange peel on the dirt) over time it buries its self into the ground. • The better one environmentally is burring because it doesn’t cause the fumes from the fire nor does it harm the environment, if anything it helps it.

8. Source separation recycling • Source separation recycling-“separating materials by type at the point of discard so they can be recycled.

9. Problems with recycling plastics • Some plastics are bad to recycle. • Almost all plastic products are stamped with a resin code — a small number sealed off by the “chasing arrows” symbol. This code is misrepresentative because it does not indicate whether or not something is recyclable.