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With the environment increasingly becoming an area of concern and our natural resources running out, recycling our waste is becoming more and more important.
Recycling only has benefits and below you can see each benefit relating to each product. Not only does recycling save our natural resources like trees and oil from being used up, it also saves on energy, electricity, water and reduces the carbon emissions from creating these products.
It also minimises the amount of rubbish being dumped into our Earth.
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Aluminium is made from Bauxite Ore, which is a non-renewable resource.
In Ireland, over 390 million aluminium cans are sold each year, all of which are fully recyclable. In fact, recycling aluminium saves 95% of the energy used to produce aluminium from raw materials.
Did you know, recycling one aluminium can saves enough energy to run a television for three hours!
And it takes 670 aluminium cans to make one bicycle.
Every 3 seconds a baby is born and in that time 140 cans were born.
Aluminium can be recycled forever, it never wears out.
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You can tell the difference between steel and aluminium cans by using a magnet. Aluminium cans are not magnetic; therefore they will not stick to the magnet. Steel cans will.
Using scrap metal in the manufacturing of metal results in 75% saving in energy. It can be recycled over and over again without suffering the slightest loss of quality.
The production of steel for one can uses about half the energy needed to make comparable aluminium can.
Steel is by far the most energy efficient metal used in the production of cans.
Steel is easy to extract from a domestic waste stream, as it is magnetic.
Every tonne of steel cans recycle save:
1.5 tonnes of iron ore
0.5 tonne of coal
40% of water required in production
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In Ireland, we use over 500,000 tonnes of paper and cardboard.
Each ton of paper recycled can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, and 4000 kilowatts of energy and 7,000 gallons of water.
Trees can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year, so recycling paper is vital to save the trees we have.
Did you know that one piece of office grade paper can be recycled seven times and that drinks cartons are made into book covers!
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Glass is made from powdered limestone sand and sodium carbonate.
Old glass is easily made into new glass and other products. And unlike paper, it can be recycled over and over again.
Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to light a light bulb for one hour or run a TV for 15 minutes.
Recycled glass can be used to make new glass, concrete, fibreglass, ceramic tiles and picture frames.
Using recycled glass uses 40% less energy than making it from scratch.
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Plastic is made from crude oil – a limited non-renewable resource.
Recycling plastic saves 2/3 of the energy required when producing plastic from raw materials.
Every plastic bag you throw away stays buried in the ground for up to 500 years before it finally breaks down.
If recycled it has many different uses. It takes about 27 recycled soft drink bottles to make one fleece jacket and 150 plastic bottles to make one mat.
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LATEST NEWS: Rehab Recycle reveal top recycling counties
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A total of 46,000 tonnes of glass from Irish households has been recycled by Rehab Recycle in the first eight months of this year - that’s enough bottles and jars to fill the pitch at the new Aviva Stadium to over 60 feet high.
A survey by Rehab Recycle has revealed that 149.5 million bottles and jars were deposited in its bring banks during the period - enough bottles to stretch over 29,900 kilometres or from Dublin to Hong Kong three times.
The survey, conducted for Repak Recycling Week which took place from 12-18 October, reveals that the people of Galway are the top recyclers with deposits of 62 bottles for every man, woman and child in the county. The people of Mayo and Cork were the next best recyclers with an average of 53 and 52 items of glass recycled per person, respectively.
The greatest increase in glass recycling came in Sligo, up by 28 per cent to 908 tonnes of glass, followed by Cavan, where figures rose by 16 per cent compared with the same period last year. Mayo, at 12 per cent, recorded the third highest increase in glass recycling.
The title of Ireland’s busiest Rehab Recycle bring site was won by Mill Shopping Centre in Clondalkin with 297 tonnes of glass deposited, representing 933,000 bottles and jars. The bring site at Artane Shopping Centre, also in Dublin, was the second busiest site with 282 tonnes of glass deposited. At 277 tonnes, the third busiest site in the country - and the busiest outside of Dublin - was at Western Distributor road in Galway.
Commenting on Repak Recycling Week, Michael Horgan, Director of Enterprises, Rehab Group, said - “Over the past eight years, deposits at Rehab Recycle bring centres nationwide have more than doubled from 30,000 tonnes of glass to in excess of 70,000 last year. That’s the equivalent of over 227 million bottles and jars.
“The results of today’s survey clearly show the great efforts of Irish people to recycle. However, there is much more that needs to be done and it is important that we continue our efforts and encourage people to bring their glass to recycling banks where it can be separated at source - thereby reducing contamination from other types of glass and recyclables. This also maximises the benefit to the environment, as glass recycled by Rehab is eventually made into glass once again - saving energy and precious resources.”
Dr. Andrew Hetherington, CEO of Repak said - “Our research shows that only 40 per cent of people always wash their wine and beer bottles before recycling them. This makes the recycling process more difficult - so, during this year’s Repak Recycling Week, we are calling on people to help us improve the quality of materials for recycling by first washing out their used glass containers before recycling them.”
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