Recycling

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Recycling

• Recycling is one of the easiest ways to help
  nature. Young people are more and more interested
  in nature and how to keep it clean. Finnish
  people are very diligent recyclers. Most people
  recycle their newspapers, plastic- and
  glassthings, metal stuffs, bottles, decaying
  foodwaste and so. Consumption is a part of every
  persons life and recycling is very important
  because the amount of garbage is growing all the
  time.

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What is it?

• recycling means using materials, objects or some
  other cultural things again for advantage

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General facts

• recycling saves nature, energy, the environment
  and money
• even though recycling and waste service works,
  waste problems are still growing and the amount
  of garbage is increasing
• Waste problems started because of quick
  industrialization and all the time growing
  standard of living
• recycling is very important for the future

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• almost 80 million tons of waste in Finland every
  year is produced
• self made compost. All decomposing waste
  becomes soil.

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Biorefuse Mixedwaste

• for example foodremains, serviettes, teabags,
  flowers, filterpaper
• everything that decomposes and is able to become
  soil

• your everyday trashes
• things that you cant recycle but its not
  problem waste either
• its called drywaste
• trashes which go to the dump

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Glass recycling Metal recycling

• things that are made of glass
• for example glass bottles, containers, vases
• Paper recycling
• magazines, newspapers for example

• things that are made of metal
• for example cans, metalpipes, metallids
• Bottle recycling
• take empty bottles to a shop and youll get a
  deposit between 0,10 0,40 .

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Photos By Emmi LehtinenThere are recycling
places in Finland where you can take your
recyclable things
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Recycling Clothes Problem waste

• you can sell your old clothes at a fleamarket or
  to a friend
• you can give them to some organization like UFF
  or the Red Cross

• waste that you cant destroy with other wastes
• problem waste has to be taken to the problem
  waste factory where it is burned in a high
  temperature
• for example batteries, medicines, electricity
  machines, light bulbs, thermometers

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What can we do?

• use flea markets and old stuff shops
• choose the product which is in a little package
• dont buy unnecessary products
• avoid buying plastic bags, use your own fabric
  bag
• rent or lend things which you dont need often
• urge your family and friends to recycle
• try to repair broken things before you toss them

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We asked some young people how they do recycling
and what it means to them?

• I personally think recycling is a very
  important little thing for anyone to do. It
  really helps humanity with trash-problems and
  saves nature. We recycle glass and plastic
  bottles, newspapers and metal in my family
• I only recycle bottles and I think its nice
  because I get money from it
• It's absolutely a good thing to think about
  your own everyday life and how you could live
  more ecologically. Products in shops have
  nowadays good signs of what is environmentally
  friendly. People find also good products for
  themselves at a fleamarket or recycling centers.
  
• Every kind of nature protection is important
  so I try to recycle whenever its possible. I
  recycle for example used bottles, old clothes and
  old electric gadgets and old magazines. I dont
  use recycled products and thats the thing where
  I can do better.
• Recycling activity is effective and
  multifaceted in Finland. People obey the rules
  pretty well. I do paper and biorecycling and I
  take my old clothes to a fleamarket.