FINAL ACTIVITY 2

FINDING EVERYDAY POLLUTION

Different kinds of pollutants

CAN BE RECYCLED CAN’T BE RECYCLED

Plastic bags Styrofoam
Newspaper Diapers
Plastic Bottles Paper Towels
Newspapers Tissues
Food Waste Syringes
Cartons

Recycling is an incredibly vital practice that we all must learn to follow. It is one of the 3
R’s, where the other two are reducing and reusing. Reducing refers to trying to reduce the
amount of waste we produce, reusing refers to when we reuse something the way it is instead of
throwing it away. Recycling refers to when we take the materials used to produce a good and
reuse them to make another. These are three practices that we must teach in our lives whenever
possible, to promote sustainable development.

Waste management is one of the biggest problems in society today. Many of this includes
waste that the world can easily harvest to recycle and make into new products, and people
around the world do this. Several governments require you to separate your garbage at home into
wet waste and dry waste or into waste, which is recyclable and that which is not. The most
common waste items include plastic, paper, metal cans, and glass.

Plastic is recycled according to its quality and type, but the basic process is to melt it and
recreate another plastic item. To recycle paper, it is first cleaned of any ink or dirt using
chemicals, then made into a pulp, which is later made into new, clean paper. Objects made of
glass or metal follow recycling processes similar to that of plastic, with the difference being that
they are first broken and only melted into new ones.

However, we need not only depend on government regulations to begin recycling in our
own homes. There are several ways in which we can practice recycling at home, and they are
simpler than we may think. Plastic bottles are recyclable in many ways – you can make several
lovely crafts out of them using your creativity and imagination. Glass bottles and jars are
recyclable and reusable, thus if you finish a bottle of pickle or jam, you can easily reuse those
bottles or jars for something else. Hence you can use the concept of recycling even to let your
imagination and creativity run wild.

All public spaces and buildings such as offices, schools, colleges, etc. all have dustbins,
which consist of three types – general, plastic, and paper. These are to efficiently collect trash so
that they can be recycled the way they should be.

The recycled paper prevents deforestation by the millions, as since we are recycling paper
we need fewer trees cut down. Recycling raw materials also reduce the pressure on some
corporations so that the production can decrease slightly, reducing carbon and greenhouse gas
emissions. Hence, recycling is supremely vital for the environment and, therefore, for us humans,
too.