Recycling plastic bottles

Recycling plastic bottles.
Many people reuse plastic bottles with drinking water. Yo should, in fact, buy a good plastic bottle for your drinking water. These plastics are designed to degrade and may be harmful to you.

How to recycle plastic bottles.
The best way is to throw it out with your recyclables. These one-use only bottles can often be melted down and reused to make more bottles.

An innovative way of recycling paper

An innovative way of recycling paper.
When you make a mistake in printing something, usually yu only print on one side. Don’t throw it away. As you write notes and scribble bits of info, you can use the back of the printed paper for this purpose. You save paper, and a little bit of the environment this way.

recycling paper part 1

What is recycled paper?
Recycled paper is paper which is repulped and made into new paper.

Can I recycle paper in my own home?
Yes. There are kits you can buy, but these are for single sheets. They are usually used for making special one-off paper. You can make these yourself – they are mesh wires in a wooden frame to allow to paper to dry. You can use old paper and old newspaper, a bucket and the mesh frame to do this.

recycling water

Recycled water.
Why recycle water?
In the old days, fresh water was considered an expendable resource. There was more supply than demand.
We now know water is not infinite. As population grows, the demand on a finite amount of fresh water increases. New ways of procuring ‘new’ fresh water is becoming increasingly expensive. There simply is no other viable alternative to get the supply we need to meet demand in our increasingly thirsty cities.

Is recycled water safe?
At some stage of a waters’ cycle, water get reused. Although we have billions of litres of water in the oceans and seas, this is not drinkable. The fresh water we drink is, to an extent, recycled. It is also safe
Recycled water (or treated sewerage) is just a sped-up version of this process. Most of the toxic substances are removed through treatment and pumped either back into the dams or straight back onto the drinking water supply. If it is pumped directly into the drinking water supply, extra treatment is needed to bring it up to safe levels.

I heard that a town in Victoria, Australia rejected recycling water. Why?
Although recycled sewerage is safe if treated properly, and the government supported the plan, the instant you say it is recycled sewerage, you start losing support for the idea.
People have a way of conjuring up good or bad images, and recycled sewerage sounds bad. Campaigners against the idea used this to sway people who were undecided to their side. Note that sounding bad doesn’t necessarily mean it is bad.
That particular town wasn’t the first to float the idea. Indeed, if you have visited Singapore or Saudi Arabia, you have used recycled water. There, they have no other choice if they want their cities to survive.