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Does your village or nearest city have a mechanism in place for recycling these waste materials ? Find out how it is done and write in detail.

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Near to our village there is a center that recycles the paper waste. Here the waste paper is recycled in the following way.
1) Waste paper is collected from various sources.
2) This paper is taken to the recycling plant where it is separated into types and grades.
3) The separated paper is then washed with soapy water to remove inks, plastic film, staples and glue.
4) The paper is put into a large holder where it is mixed with water to create slurry.
5) By adding different materials to the slurry different paper products can be created such as cardboard. newsprints, or office paper.
6) The slurry is spread using large rollers into large thin sheets.
7) The paper is left to dry.
8) Then it is rolled up, ready to be cut and sent back to the shops.
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Plastic Recycling process :
Stage - 1 : Plastic needs to collected by the recycling company. Once plastic arise, recycling plant he first stage is to sort the plastic into specific types because plastic recycling is more complex than of other metals like glass or paper. Due to many different types of plastic, more importantly mixed plastic cannot be used in manufacturing without delivering poor quality products. Hence why plastic recycling companies need to be through when it comes to sorting the waste plastic into the definite forms.
Stage - 2 : Once the waste plastic is identified and separated, the cleaning process will begin, this usually starts with washing to remove paper labels, adhesives and other impurities to be completely removed as this lowers the quality of the recyclic plastic.
Stage - 3 : The shredding stage is when the plastic is taken and loaded on to conveyor belts or directly into huge hoppers that funnel the clean scrap towards rotating metal teeth that rip the plastic into small pellets which are bagged up and ready for testing.
Stage - 4 : Identify and classify the plastic : Once the shredded plastic has been hagged it is then chemically tested and labelled as to its exact specification, this grade plastic can be used as is by adding to a mix of vergin plastic in a manufacturing run, alternatively the grade plastic can be further recycled.
Stage - 5 : Extruding : This is the final stage in recycling plastic. This involves cleaning and melting, shredded plastic and extruding the form of pellets which then go on to manufacture the next lot of plastic products.
Reasons to recyclic plastic : Millions of tons of a waste plastic end up in land fill, when the vast majority of it can be recycled, it's all too easy to throw away rubbish without a second thought, but we need to take care of our planet and not just reducing the amount of rubbish we bury but also given that plastic is derived from oil, a natural product with ever depleting resources it makes sense to recycling as much as possible.
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