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Recycling Program Benefits:
New Products & Environmental Savings
Iowa State University
February 8, 2007
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Paper Recycling Process
Upon arrival at the recycling facility, papers are cleaned, baled and sold to pulping mills
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White paper will be pulped and turned into more white paper.
New Life of Recycled Paper
Newspaper will be pulped and turned into a variety of products ranging from more newspaper to corrugated cardboard lining to housing insulation.
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Cardboard boxes will be pulped and turned into more cardboard.
New Life of Recycled Paper
Mixed paper will be pulped and turned into a variety of products from corrugated cardboard lining to cereal boxes to low grade paper.
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Conserves natural resources
Every ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees.
Why Recycle Paper?
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Saves energy
Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 4,200 kilowatt hours…that’s enough to power an average-
sized home for two years!
Why Recycle Paper?
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Protects and conserves our clean
water supplies
Every ton of recycled paper conserves 7,000 gallons of water…
That’s the equivalent of nearly 2,000 toilet flushes!
Why Recycle Paper?
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Saves landfill space
Every ton of recycled paper saves 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space.
Why Recycle Paper?
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Protects and conserves our clean air
Manufacturing 1 ton of paper from virgin wood pulp creates an additional 60 pounds of air pollution.
Why Recycle Paper?
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Plastic Recycling Process
Upon arrival at the recycling facility, plastics are sorted, cleaned, baled and sold to mills
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Plastics can be turned into clothing, toys, carpet, park benches, plastic lumber and parking blocks.
New Life of Recycled Plastics
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Why Recycle Plastics?
Five PET bottles yield enough fiber to make an extra large T-shirt.
It takes 35 two-liter PET bottles to produce enough fiberfill for a sleeping bag.
Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
Recycling 1 ton of plastic milk jugs saves enough energy to light a home for approximately 1 year.
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Glass Recycling Process
Upon arrival at the recycling facility, glass is crushed, cleaned and sold to mills
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Glass containers are melted and turned into more glass containers.
New Life of Recycled Glass
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Why Recycle Glass?
Recycled glass is used for new glass containers, fiberglass insulation, road beds (aggregate), concrete block and glassphalt (asphalt).
Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for 4 hours.
Making glass from recycled materials cuts related air pollution 20%, water pollution 50%, and mining waste 75%.
Glass is the oldest form of recycled material, produced by the Egyptians over 3,000 years ago for jewelry and drinking cups.
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Steel Can Recycling Process
Upon arrival at the recycling facility, steel cans are cleaned, baled and sold to mills
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Steel cans will be melted and used to make new steel products including cars, bridges, lawnmowers, stoves, and construction materials.
New Life of Recycled Steel Cans
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Why Recycle Steel Cans?
We throw away enough steel every year to build all the new cars made in America.
Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74% of the energy used to produce them from raw materials.
The steel industry's annual recycling saves the equivalent energy to electrically power about 18 million households for a year.
The steel industry recycles about 600 cans every second.
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Aluminum Can Recycling Process
Upon arrival at the recycling facility, aluminum cans are cleaned, baled and sold to mills
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Aluminum cans are melted and turned into more aluminum cans.
An aluminum can placed in a recycle bin returns to the grocer’s shelf as a new, filled can in less than 60 days.
New Life of Aluminum Cans
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Why Recycle Aluminum Cans?
The side of an aluminum can is the same thickness as a human hair.
We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year.
The average aluminum can contains about 51% recycled material.
An average 113,204 aluminum cans are recycled every minute.
By recycling a single aluminum can, we save enough energy to power a television for up to 3 hours.
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Saves Money
Lowered garbage collection
Payment for recyclable materials
Why Recycle?
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Creates New Jobs
Gives new life to materials otherwise destined for landfill
Creates jobs in recycling and
remanufacturing
Why Recycle?
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Contact us for more information:
Erin NovakMid America Recycling2742 East Market St.Des Moines, IA 50317Phone: 515-265-1208Fax: 515-262-2209midamericarecycling.com
Thank you for recycling!