This are how paper recycle:
- Paper is taken from the bin and deposited in a large recycling container along with paper from other recycling bins.
- The paper is taken to a recycling plant where it is separated into types and grades.
- The separated paper is then washed with soapy water to remove inks, plastic film, staples and glue. The paper is put into a large holder where it is mixed with water to create ‘slurry’.
- By adding different materials to the slurry, different paper products can be created, such as cardboard, newsprints or office paper.
- The slurry is spread using large rollers into large thin sheets.
- The paper is left to dry, and then it is rolled up ready to be cut and sent back to the shops.
Do you know how much waste you make?
Each ton (2000 lbs) of recycled paper we produce can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!
The three steps : Reduce, Re-use, and Recycle.
Reduce
Choose products that can be used productively, recycled in your area, and have minimal packaging.
Re-use
Reuse containers, packaging or waste products.
Recycle
Recycle waste material into useable products.
In fact we can learning many from local wisdom our ancestors about how to treat environment better and fraternize. Even by teoretis blind them blind for knowledge, but in praktice they can read natural symptom and marking through intuitive sensitivity.
Society of Papua, for example, owning local mores and culture which more harmonious placing forward with nature. They've prohibition conduct mutilation to nature because assessed can become big threat to their culture. Nature not merely source of life, but also teacher and friend which have taught many matter for them. From their nature find life philosophy, developing pattern and religiositas live such as those which they embrace up to now.
Back to nature!!
Many of you, must interest in this words. It's simple but have many effects.
The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, or "the course of things, natural character."
Within the various uses of the word today, "nature" may refer to the general realm of various types of living plants and animals, and in some cases to the processes associated with inanimate objects – the way that particular types of things exist and change of their own accord, such as the weather and geology of the Earth, and the matter and energy of which all these things are composed.
So, back to nature is means back to healthy life. And there are 3 step which familiar with back to nature. Reuse, Reduce, Recycling.
