The New Type of Recycling
Recycling, people have been doing it since recorded time. Whether it was to re-purpose the enemy’s sword in medieval times or call on your fellow US citizens to donate their metals as in wartime America, recycling is a fundamental part in preserving this precious earth, but what is recycling you might ask? Recycling is the process of taking materials such as paper, plastics, steel, glass, aluminum and breaking them down to its basic components, then reusing it for new products. Paper cardboard and other paper materials undergo a process to break the paper down to its most basic elements wood fibers or pulp and water.
Once the paper has been separated from the other recyclables it is put into a hot water bath, filtered, deinked dried and is made into new paper products. Some plastics are much harder to recycle than others this is why they are separated into several … Read the rest