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  1. Hello, everybody.
  2. Happy Earth Day Week.
  3. A special little science lesson for a week, I'm gonna
  4. talk a little bit about recycling.
  5. So what is recycling?
  6. Recycling is a way to take trash and turn into
  7. new products.
  8. There are a number of different recycling process is that
  9. allow materials to be used more than once.
  10. So what can be recycled?
  11. Um, all sorts of materials, especially those in this picture
  12. right here.
  13. Um, some of the most common processes in use today
  14. involve recycling plastic glass, metals, paper, electron ICS in textiles.
  15. Typically used items made of these materials include soda cans,
  16. plastic milk cartons, newspapers, old computers and cardboard boxes.
  17. It's a little bit more on what can be recycled.
  18. Um, so depending on what town you live in, you'll
  19. have a different sort of recycling service.
  20. So here where I live in Tinley Park, we use
  21. Homewood disposal service.
  22. Um, so in this slide is just like a couple
  23. of things that are accepted recycling items.
  24. And then we're gonna talk about some things that may
  25. surprise you that you're not allowed to psych some things
  26. that our love our aluminum, tin or metal cans, plastic
  27. vials or containers.
  28. Glass bottles or jars, cartons and clean milk, juice, broth,
  29. soup and other file holders.
  30. Junk mail.
  31. Um, plant in cardboard boxes, um, paperboard boxes and newspapers,
  32. catalogs, phone books and paper bags.
  33. So some things that may surprise you.
  34. There's actually a long list of things that are not
  35. accepted for recycling.
  36. So any time you try recycling, we used these or
  37. end up just gonna be thrown away in the landfill.
  38. Sometimes, Uh, those include plastic bags, um, greasy pizza boxes.
  39. Okay, so if you have a pizza box and it
  40. has grease in it, you're gonna want to cut out
  41. the areas with the grease in the pizza fax and
  42. throw away the greasy part, and you can put the
  43. rest of it in the recycling bin.
  44. Um, some other things, including electronics and TV ads.
  45. You actually have to go to a specialized location and
  46. drop off your old TVs and electronics recycling service's are
  47. gonna actually do that other own, um, another thing that
  48. I found super interesting waas batteries.
  49. Once again, batteries is taken to a special location for
  50. them to be reused and repurpose.
  51. Um, there was one other thing that a lot of
  52. people actually do try to do is diapers.
  53. So dirty diapers, For obvious reasons, they're not allowed to
  54. be recycled it all.
  55. So, guys, just keep that in mind.
  56. When you're recycling, you're gonna want to take the stuff
  57. that actually accepted items for your company, then coming it
  58. picks up for yourself.
  59. And make sure you put that in there.
  60. Do not use a plastic bag for your items.
  61. All right, So how does recycling work?
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  67. So how are certain items?
  68. Recycled recycling is actually complicated process and is different for
  69. each type of material.
  70. So aluminum cans were one of the first items to
  71. be heavily recycled.
  72. The process isn't quite as complicated as it is for
  73. other items on the cancer.
  74. Usually first of shredded and melted from their aluminum.
  75. Could be used to make new cans and other aluminum
  76. items. So there are a lot of types of plastics
  77. and each type come from different combination of chemicals.
  78. As a result, plastic bottles are first sorted into their
  79. various chemical types.
  80. They're cleaned to get rid of any leftover food or
  81. other ways.
  82. Next, the bottles are crushed and shredded into fine plastic
  83. cups chips.
  84. Thes chips must be melted down to create new plastic
  85. or turn it into fiver used for making carpets or
  86. clothing. Uh, paper, on the other hand, starts its recycling
  87. process by being mixed with water and other chemicals that
  88. break it down.
  89. It then gets shredded and heated up.
  90. This process eventually turns the paper into a pole or
  91. slurry. Ah, the poll is strained in order room.
  92. Any clues or plastics?
  93. After that, it gets cleaned and bleached to remove any
  94. leftover inks or dies.
  95. Now the pope is ready.
  96. May be made into a new paper.
  97. So fun fact about paper paper could be actually be
  98. recycled seven times.
  99. Okay, After that seven time, the fibers and the paper
  100. actually unable.
  101. Um, so the next we have the computer and banners.
  102. Computers and batteries are usually recycled in order to remove
  103. harmful chemicals as to recover sale, but some of the
  104. valuable materials, such as gold from the electron IC boards.
  105. But like I said, you can't just, um, take out
  106. your old computer on garbage day, right?
  107. And put that in your recycling thing because you have
  108. to take that to a special location to be able
  109. to recycle your electronics.
  110. I know.
  111. In Tinley Park, we have a certain location right over
  112. by the police station where people are trapped off their
  113. old electronic goods, so benefits of recycle their many benefits
  114. from cycle.
  115. Um, these include recycling materials, means less trash and save
  116. space and dumps and landfills.
  117. Um, also helps.
  118. A resource is when we use materials again, this means
  119. we take fewer Resource is from the earth, and you
  120. know that the resources we're getting from the earth are
  121. gonna last forever.
  122. Right? So we need to keep reusing, are needed resources
  123. in pollution.
  124. In general, recycling materials can proves less pollution, which helps
  125. keep our environment.
  126. So what can you do?
  127. S. So just be sure, recycle everything you can in
  128. your home in school.
  129. Uh, there's almost always a recycled trash can route.
  130. I'll be sure to drop here.
  131. Use aluminum cans and plastic bottles in there.
  132. I'm al B Sure put paper items like newspaper cereal
  133. boxes and homer pages after the tournament.
  134. Be sure after the tournament, okay, napping for right so
  135. into the recycling bin.
  136. So just some fun facts that end this Plastics are
  137. usually marked with an identification code that indicates the recycling
  138. symbol, Um, and a number from 1 to 7.
  139. Ah, this indicates the type of chemicals or polymer used
  140. to make plastic.
  141. Because there's not just one type of plastic I know
  142. you can only see my eyes Right now.
  143. There's a, uh, not just one type of plastic Easy
  144. excuse different materials when creating plastic.
  145. So the numbers one through seven, right one through seven
  146. actually indicate what type of materials were used.
  147. So then they're ableto actually sort all the plastic materials
  148. and actually be able to reuse them, which is pretty
  149. cool. Um, like I said earlier, and use paper can
  150. be recycled around seven times.
  151. After this, the fibers get too short and are filtered
  152. out by the recycling process.
  153. That's so waste materials.
  154. Eyes turned into a lecture, uh, electricity energy by burning
  155. it. Modern incinerators, basically things that bird stuff right on
  156. the last thing glasses.
  157. One of the most recycled materials are best recycling materials.
  158. Um, clear glass can be recycled over and over again.
  159. All right, that pretty much wraps up on recycling 101
  160. Please go to the next line and answer the next
  161. couple questions.
  162. I hope you guys have a great week seal.