While you may think that you are not throwing out a lot of rubbish each week, you might want to do the maths. Say for example you place three bags of rubbish on the curb each week. That is 156 bags a week. Now let us say that there are two thousand homes in your city that each put out 156 bags of rubbish a year. That is a total of 312,000 bags of rubbish that go straight into the landfills. Now just imagine if you can the amount of waste that is collected each week from every home, office, and business throughout the world. The number will probably shock you.
The thing is though, 75 percent of all of that rubbish that is being shoved into plastic bags and dumped in a landfill is a recyclable material. According to the EPA, only 30 percent of what is recyclable material is recycled. While aluminum cans seem to be something that many people do recycle, there were still 55 billion cans that were either littered, incinerated, or sent to the landfill instead of being recycled. This is an insane number of wasted cans that are hitting the earth instead of being recycled and made use of.
Even though you may not be able to change the entire world, you can do your part. Since every person is typically responsible for roughly 1.5 tons of waste every year, you can start recycling. It can be done very easily by contacting a waste recycling company. The waste recycling company will come in and empty your recyclable waste material into their trucks from the containers that are provided for you. The material is then taken to a material recovery facility where about 28 tons of waste is processed each hour. This works out to be about 438 tons every day.
The paper is sorted and it is sent to be recycled into new paper products. Glass is recycled for more glass and metal is recycled for more metal. Just about everything that you throw away in your bin each week is a recyclable material. If you take out four bags of rubbish each week, only one of those bags would be pure waste that is meant for the landfill, as the rest could be recycled.
So many people have a complaint that waste recycling is just so much work. All you have to do is place your recyclable material in the designated container and allow the waste recycling company to do the rest. They pick it up, they sort it and they make sure that everything is reused. Before you know it, you could be drinking out of a glass bottle made from glass that you once used for target practice.
Once you get into the hang of working with the waste recycling company, you will want to make sure that you are talking with your friends, family, and co-workers about the wonderful recycling that you are involved in. Try skip bins gold coast. See whom you can get to join you in your efforts to save the planet from an overload of rubbish.