Is recycling worth the cost? By: Ian Nong and Daniel Sedano

Outline  Is Recycling Bad or Good?  What Kinds of Recycling are There?  All the Kinds of Recycling  Were our Recycling Ends Up  What Can Recycling Do?

Is Recycling Bad or Good?  Environment  Health  Money  Space on Earth

Kinds of Recycling  Aluminum Cans  Glass  Newspapers  Plastic  Computers  Metals

Cans  5 billion sold  $30 million available  New Steel is 25% recycled

Newspapers  Reading another newspaper  17 Trees  73%  13 million made  9 million  Decades

Computers  Parts reused  Have hazardous materials  Entire Computer  Reduce Mining

Where Our Recycling Ends Up  Paper into paper  Glass has after life  Bottles into toys  Factories WM.com

What Can Recycling Do?  Trees  Energy  Landfill  Oil  Water  Limestone  Sand  Money mp_env_recycle013.jpg

Is Recycling Worth The Cost ? YES

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