How to help the environment by recycling

Help Save The Environment by Recycling Cans

2009-04-05T12:31:00.000-07:00

By recycling cans we make are making a useful contribution towards helping to preserve our environment. We don't want them ending up in landfill, because they aren't biodegradable.

I walk a lot, to the shops, to the library, and many other places as well. Every day I see empty drinks cans strewn alongside the paths and in the hedgerows. If people want to dispose of them this way at least drop them where they can easily be picked up by someone else, and not in a hedgerow where it's easy to be scratched and prickled by thorns.

Recycling cans is easy to do. Here in the UK our local authority ask us to separate them from the other rubbish and we put them in blue bins which are collected once a fortnight. We are able to mix other recyclables with them, so they can evidently recycled together with other waste products.

Our local school runs a scheme where they ask parents to contribute their empty cans to the school who in turn pass them on to a local recycling firm who pay the school for the number of cans contributed.

This way the school raises much needed building restoration and improvement funds and the environment benefits as well and looks tidier as well.

Some households generate a lot of empty cans to dispose of, others have not many at all. Foods and drinks are typically packaged in cans so it depends on how many of these we buy as to how much waste we generate.

Other than throw empty cans away there are a few other uses I can think of for them.

1. Used ring pull cans could be used as a miniature vase for a flower or two.

2. Rinse out used cans and use them in the garden shed for storing small items such as nails and washers.

3. You could use one to practice your putting. Take it to the office and put it on the floor any time you want to practice your putting.

Here are just three ideas of what to do with empty cans. All it takes is a little imagination to come up with even more ideas for recycling cans.

How to help the environment by recycling

2009-03-21T13:22:00.001-07:00

How we can help the environment by recycling?

When it comes to rubbish and waste we can all do out bit to help preserve our environment. And, no special skills are needed, nor do we have to spend any money in doing our bit to help save the environment, all we need is a determination on our part to perform a few simple and easily learned habits each day.

What can we do?

If you live in the UK you will need to start by checking your local government authority's policy on waste recycling. They make the rules and we have to abide by them.

1. Separate paper products from other rubbish before you throw it out. We have a blue wheelie bin to dispose of our paper products and cans.

2. Household waste such as potato peelings, fruit and vegetable waste can be disposed of on the garden if you have one. It will rot down and improve the soil.

3. Try growing your own vegetables. You don't need a big garden plot to be able to do this. Many varieties of vegetables can be grown in containers. Potatoes and carrots are good examples.

4. It's a good idea to shred all your personal information, letters and other correspondence, and this can be disposed of on the garden, mixing it between other garden waste. It will rot down in time.

5. Change to low energy light bulbs. These emit lower levels of carbon and are much more energy efficient, so you save on your energy bills as well.

6. Don't be in a hurry to throw everything away. Some bottles can be reused or are returnable.

7. Save on the use of plastic shopping bags, by reusing them as many times as possible, or better still, by a hessian bag and take that shopping with you instead.

8. Make use of the local bottle and clothes banks to correctly dispose of these items.

9. If you have waste car oil, take it to the local waste disposal centre. Don't be tempted to pour it down the drain.

10. If you use batteries, don't dispose of them in landfill. Take them to the waste disposal yard. Think about switching to rechargeable batteries.

11. Consider donating unwanted gifts, clothes , etc to the local charity shop, instead of throwing them away. By doing this, someone else will benefit from your generosity.

12. Old computer equipment can be donated to schools in preference to throwing away.

I hope you have found these recycling tips useful. Feel free to suggest any ideas you might have of your own about how to help the environment by recycling.

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2009-03-19T12:22:00.000-07:00

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