Recycling: Do Your Part!

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Recycling Do Your Part!
Together With
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Whats Your Responsibility?

• What kinds of things do you recycle?
• What kinds of things dont you recycle?
• How often do you throw away recyclable objects?
  Why?
• Whose responsibility is it to make sure materials
  get recycled?
• What can you do to increase recycling rates in
  your family, school, community or country?

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Who Benefits Most From Recycling?

• Who is hurt the most when we dont recycle?
• How is your life and the lives of others affected
  by the decision to NOT recycle?

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Energy Use

• Recycling aluminum takes about 95 less energy
  than making new aluminum. How long do you think
  you could power a 100-watt light bulb if you
  recycle one aluminum can?
• 8 Minutes
• 25 Seconds
• 20 Hours
• 3 Days

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Your Effect

• If you recycle one aluminum can per day for your
  whole life, how long do you think you could power
  a home with the energy savings?
• 6 Months
• 3-4 Years
• 20 Years
• 65-70 Years

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Energy Use

• Americans throw away around 2.5 million plastic
  bottles an hour. Aside from causing a huge amount
  of pollution, this is also a huge waste of
  energy. How long do you think you could run a
  60-watt light bulb with the energy saved from
  recycling a single bottle?
• a. 30 Minutes
• b. 3 Hours
• c. 10 Days
• d. 15 Seconds

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Energy Use

• While the raw material that goes into making
  glass sand is cheap, making new glass still
  requires significant energy. How long do you
  think you could run a 100-watt light bulb using
  the energy saved from recycling a single glass
  bottle?
• 3 Seconds
• 25 Minutes
• 4 Hours
• 7 Days

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The Reaon To Recycle

• Since you live in Maine, you can get 5 or 15
  cents for every redeemable bottle that you
  recycle! You wouldnt throw your money in the
  garbage would you?

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The Life Cycle of a Deposit
1. Bottle Distributor
2. The Store
starts the chain by selling the product to the
store and receiving the nickel deposit per can
sold
gets the nickel back when you buy the product
3. YOU
get back the nickel you paid the store when the
product is redeemed at a redemption center
4. The Redemption Center (CLYNK)
bills the bottle distributor for the nickel after
you redeem the product, thereby closing the loop
or
throw the can away, BREAKING the chain!
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Think That Wont Add Up?

• On average, one bag full of bottles and cans is
  worth between 3 and 4.

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Is It Recyclable?
YES!
Paper
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Is It Recyclable?
NO!
Used Napkin
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Is It Recyclable?
YES!
Milk Jug
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Is It Recyclable?
YES!
Cereal Box
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Is It Recyclable?
NO!
Used Pizza Box
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Is It Recyclable?
YES!
Ketchup Bottle
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Is It Recyclable?
NO!
Styrofoam
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Is It Recyclable?
NO!
Plastic Bags
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Is It Recyclable?
YES!
Plastic Shopping Bags
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You Can Have An Impact!

• If every American recycled just one more aluminum
  can per week, we would remove over 17 billion
  cans from landfills each year!

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Now You Know

• So now that you know how important recycling is.
  Get out there and do something about it! One of
  the easiest things to do is to begin recycling
  100 of your own bottles and cans

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Now You Know
To view a video showing how CLYNK recycles, click
the link below CLYNK-How it Works
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Activity The Recycling Cycle
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Sources for Factual Material

• 1-"Environmental Factoids WasteWise US EPA."
  US Environmental Protection Agency. EPA, 28 July
  2011. Web. 28 Sept. 2011
• 2-"Recycle Facts Labels for Recycling Single
  Sort Stream Comingled Mixed Recycling." Recycle
  Across America Recycling Labels Decals Signs
  Stickers Compost Waste. Environmental Advancement
  Foundation. Web. 12 Sept. 2011.
  lthttp//www.recycleacrossamerica.org/recycling-fac
  t.htmlgt.
• 3-"Alcoa News Alcoa TV." Alcoa Inc. -- Primary
  Aluminum (aluminium) and Fabricated Aluminum
  Products. ALCOA INC. Web. 12 Sept. 2011.
  lthttp//www.alcoa.com/global/en/news/alcoa_video.a
  sp?videoid129gt.