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1. You buy a bottle of water,
you drink it and then you
recycle the bottle. Along
with the other plastic, it
is sent to a reprocessing
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plant where it is sorted into
different types of plastic
and then ground into
beads or flakes.
2. These remnants are then bought
by companies to melt them down
to manufacture all sorts of things,
including jumpers. If you bought
such a jumper until it got old and
tired, you could put it in one of
the many textile banks around the
borough – if it is in good condition
it could be sent to clothe people in
need, home or abroad. If it is not
of sufficient quality it would be sent
to be recycled within the UK.
3. Industrial firms then convert the
material into handy objects like
cleaning cloths, which you then might
buy to clean your kitchen worktop.
CIRCULAR NEWS:
NEWSROUND AND ROUND
Your magazines or newspapers
may already be made out of
100% recycled paper, but they
can be recycled again,
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plastics, metals, grit
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through screening. The pulp
would then be injected between
two wire meshes to form a
damp paper web, then passed
through a series of presses and
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Eventually, bright, clean
newsprint on jumbo reels were
transported to the printing presses
and publishing companies to
be reused.
CORE OF THE MATTER:
FOOD WASTE
After being popped into a kitchen
caddy, the apple core would have
ended up in the food waste bin
outside the home, and then
collected by the council’s
recycling trucks. It would then
be taken to a special processing
plant to recycle the food waste
into a liquid fertiliser to be used
for agricultural purposes. The
process, called anaerobic
digestion, also generates
electricity which would go
straight into the National Grid.
MORE INFORMATION
To find out what you can recycle,
and where, and lots more details, visit
www.ealing.gov.uk/recycling
Five recycling facts
1
It takes seven days for your
paper to be recycled from
collection to newspaper
2
In a year, an individual drinks
can could be recycled eight
times, saving enough energy to
make 160 new cans
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It takes 25 recycled drinks
bottles to ma ke a fleece jacket
Every tonne of cardboard
recycled saves 17 trees
Around £140 million worth
(350,000 tonnes) of used
clothing is wasted by being thrown
in the rubbish bin and sent to
landfill in the UK every year instead
of being recycled or reused
around ealing
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