Get Eco-friendly: Get Recycling
We eat, drink, wear clothes, read newspapers and use so many things that eventually end up as some form of waste everyday. We just dump everything in the rubbish bin or drop it at the garbage collection points or keep it at a pre-defined place for the garbage collectors to pick up. We don’t really stop to think. There is so much ‘stuff’ in our waste bins that, if properly recycled, could save so much of nature’s bounty. Used newspaper can be converted into cardboard, organic items can be converted into fertilisers and so on. Imagine if everyone saved their waste, segregated it into different bins so that the recycling is easier – there would be so much saving and little waste.
The recycle bin is a container that collects used or waste material for reprocessing. The material in it will be reused in an appropriate manner and there definitely would be less pollution. All over the world, recycle bins are finding their way into households and, if everyone used them, then the dwindling resources of nature could be conserved. These recycle bins come in different sizes and in different materials. You can buy stainless steel ones, or plastic ones or even fibreglass ones. They are easily available in the stores or can be bought online as well. Recycle bins come in various sizes and shapes. The sizes are measured in litres (i.e., their holding capacity). There are twenty five litre bins, forty five litre bins and so on. These bins have different compartments to collect the different waste materials. Most have two compartments.
These compartments are in different colours so that at one glance you know where to put which material. Blue and green colours are popularly used for the compartments. Even the pedal, which is on the bin for lifting the lid, is coloured. The blue ones are generally used to collect metals and plastics while the green ones are for newspapers. Of course the colour code may vary from place to place but these standard colours are more common for easy identification. You can keep these recycle bins inside your house, on the pavement or even in a public place. Many cities have special places, generally by the roadside, on the pavement so that the collecting vehicle can collect the maximum amount of waste by using the minimum amount of time. The rubbish collectors can come, identify immediately which garbage is to be recycled and take it for recycling.
As mentioned earlier, newspaper can be recycled as cardboard while other things like used car spare parts can be utilised for their lead components. Sometimes, used office paper can be used for making paper bags and the like. There are a lot of uses to which waste material can be put to if we only stop to think imaginatively and logically. It is up to us to put garbage to good use, encourage segregation of garbage, make collection and recycling easier and help ease the pressure on the environment and promote preservation of nature’s bountiful resources.