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We chose to do our project about recycling in Israel. Until the beginning of the
90's, there wasn't a lot of awareness about recycling in Israel. Garbage was
sent to hundreds of landfills while contaminating land, air and water. In 1993,
the government finally decided to act. The decision included the following
topics: closing landfills, opening water purification factories, assisting the local
many more. With the help of recycling factories that were opened, recycling
containers that were stationed in the streets, and many campaigns that were
held, the awareness about this subject has been consistently growing, and
now it's an important part of our lives. Due to this, we wanted to find out more
because when we talked about it, we found out that we don't really know
much about what happens to the materials after we put them in the
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What is the process that the materials go through during recycling, and how
Recycling is the process of turning used products into raw materials that can
and reduce pollution and the amount of garbage sent to landfills. Making
something from recycled materials uses fewer natural resources and requires
less energy than it would take to manufacture the same item brand-new.
All kinds of materials are being recycled as you read. Almost everything can
be recycled or reused, but some materials are much more popular. The most
Paper:
Recycling paper remarkably reduces the use of water and energy, and the
pollution that is emitted into the environment. At the beginning of the process,
the paper is sorted by type, weight, and color. After that, the paper goes
through a hot chemical and water bath that turns it into a soupy, fibrous
substance. It goes through filters that remove staples, glues and other
the surface. The pulp is then sprayed and rolled into flat sheets which are
pressed and dried. Often, new pulp is added to make the paper stronger. After
the giant sheets are dry, they are cut and resold as recycled paper, or formed
Recycling glass is a great example for saving energy and costs. Glass bottles
are just washed, disinfected, and then resold. Other glass products are sorted
by color, ground up into bits, sifted, filtered, and finally, melted and reformed
into new glass which can be used for making bottles, or for making roads. It's
important to note that recycling window glass and glass used in light bulbs is
Steel:
Steel is easy to recycle – giant machines shred steel scrapes, and then, the
steel is melted down and refined into huge sheets or coils. These can be used
Plastics:
should recycle. In the recycling process, the plastic is sorted by types and
colors, filtered, sifted of contaminants, then chopped and melted into pellets or
extruded into fibers. These can be used in many ways – razor blade handles
for example.
Cans:
Recycling cans saves 95% of the energy used to make new ones, and
reduces usage in bauxite – the mineral from which aluminum comes. In the
process, the cans are chopped up, heated to remove the paint coating, then
melted and mixed. The molten aluminum is filtered and treated, and then
poured into ingots, which are rolled into flat sheets, ready to be made into new
cans.
Electronics:
Recycling electronics isn't common, because of the costs and the toxic
materials found in the electronic products. However, there are companies that
materials.
Others:
Lots and lots of materials can be recycled. Organic waste can be composted
and turned into fertilizer. Rubber tires can be shredded, decontaminated and
materials.
benefits:
resources. Also, recycling usually requires less energy than it would take to
Economic benefits - Recycling provides almost six times as many jobs and
Paper and plastics are the main recycled materials in Israel. The reason for
this is that the government doesn't put a lot of effort into increasing awareness
about recycling.
Here are some more issues that prevent the developing of recycle in Israel:
government.
• The low prices of raw materials (and so, recycling becomes unworthy).
• Lack of infrastructure to collect the materials, for the first sorting stage
of the materials and for factories that receive the first stage sorted
materials.
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be stated in schools- that way kids will learn about recycling from young age
example, make compost from organic litter, and make sure to take care of
plastic bottles and papers as much as possible. And of course, the best way
the use of others such as drinking bottled water and instead drink tap water. If
we buy second hand products, save energy at home, use buses instead of
private cars, eat less meat and use products that have less package and
reduced.
For example we will discuss our high school, Ironi Yud Dalet:
In Ironi Yud Dalet, we use a lot of papers, in fact, every day, entire A4 paper
packages are being wasted away on work sheets, tests, and many other
things.
Moreover, different garbage cans for the different products should be placed
in the classes and the teachers should encourage the students to sort their
garbage.
contests in which the class that will recycle the most will win a prise/
In the long term, recycling will slow down infection processes and loss of raw
more space for landfills. Besides, the space that is taken by the landfills is
wasted on nothing and instead can be used for better purposes such as
The last reason is the most famous: Global warming. Everyone knows that
there are many gazes that emitted from the garbage that decompose in the
landfills, including all the materials that don't decompose (for example:
plastic). All this gazes that emitted into the atmosphere cause the
"greenhouse effect", which warms the atmosphere by absorbing thermal
clouds. All this, causes climate changes that can eventually destroy any trace