How does recycling work!?

Recycling means taking a product or material at the end of its useful life and turning it into a usable raw material to make another product. Paper: Newspaper, white paper, mixed paper, cardboard, and telephone books can be recycled. White paper is the most valuable because of its quality and versatility. The process for creating new products from recycled paper is explained here: • The paper is separated by type/grade. The separated paper is then put into a large vat (similar to a giant kitchen mixer) and mixed with water creating a product called "slurry". • The slurry is spread on racks and big rollers push all the water out. Once dry, the paper is then rolled up for later cutting into whatever size is needed for the new product. • The slurry is also the basis for paperboard (used for cereal boxes, etc.), corrugated cardboard, telephone books, and newsprint. • By adding wood or cotton fibers the slurry is turned into office-grade paper. Unlike glass or steel, paper degrades each ...

Paper recycling is the process of recovering waste paper and remaking it into new paper products. There are three categories of paper that can be used as feedstocks for making recycled paper: mill broke, pre-consumer waste, and post-consumer waste.[1] Mill broke is paper trimmings and other paper scrap from the manufacture of paper, and is recycled internally in a paper mill. Pre-consumer waste is material that was discarded before it was ready for consumer use. Post-consumer waste is material discarded after consumer use such as old magazines, old telephone directories, and residential mixed paper.[2] Paper suitable for recycling is called "scrap paper".  more

Pick up a soda bottle and look at the bottom. It will have either have "PET" on its base, or a number enclosed in the recycling sign. When you drop this bottle into the recycling bin, it's sent to a separation center where different plastics are separated by family type, either by hand or by machine. The separated plastic parts are then ground up into fine chips, which are then fed into a machine called an extruder. There the chips are melted and re-formed into pellets that can be used to make benches, pots, artificial lumber, and many other items.  more

Recycling starts with people separating recyclable materials from their other trash. The separated recyclable materials are collected by recycling programs, processed and then sold to manufacturers for use in new products.  more

At its best, recycling is a five-stage, closed-loop process, beginning with the purchase of recycled or recyclable products. After the products are used, they are collected for recycling, prepared for shipping, shipped to market, and finally reprocessed into new products or materials. The new products are then available to be purchased and used to continue the cycle.  more

recycling is when material from a consumed finished product like a soda or newspaper are used to make new material. in case of sodas, the aluminum can used to contain the soda is melted and turned into a sheet of aluminum which is then rolled or shaped into a soda can again or into any other shape like rain water gutters for the roof of a house or slotted window frames. newspaper is mashed, with water to remove the ink, bleached and turned into new paper for printing either a new issue of a newspaper or magazine of paper for notebooks. almost everything can be recycled, if we have the desire and determination to do it. it also save the raw materials in nature, so we don't have to destroy too much of nature for those raw materials which can be attained from the waste we create.  more

Recycling means taking a product or material at the end of its useful life and turning it into a usable raw material to make another product.