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Recycling At An Annual Festival

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For the past 25 years the city of Frederick, Maryland, has hosted a street festival in the fall.  This event draws 75,000 people who flock the streets to hear live music, enjoy children’s activities and purchase items made by local artisans.  The event is lacking in only one area: the area of recycling.  For all of its years in existence the festival has never had the means to take on the task of recycling its cans, bottles and paper.

Last year a senior at the local high school decided it was time for a change and she and her friends organized a booth and volunteered to go around the festival collecting glass, plastic and aluminum waste off to be recycled.  Can you imagine that?  High school students, volunteering to spend precious weekend time, collecting trash without personal motivation or gain, I was impressed when I heard that.  How many people do you know that would put themselves out like that?  I don’t know too many adults, let alone any teenagers who would take that challenge on.

This year, their 25th anniversary year, things will be a little different, due in part to the efforts of last year’s senior and her group of friends and volunteers.  This year the Coca-Cola Company, who has a bottling location on North Market Street, nearby the festival site, will donate 20 recycle bins to be set up throughout the festival area.  Plastic and glass items to be recycled will be taken to the county’s recycling location and the aluminum collected will be resold for a small fund-raising profit.

What was really impressive about this story was the self-less-ness in which these students acted.  They didn’t do this because it would win them an award or a grant or money in some other form; they did this because it was the right thing to do.  How many counties, cities and towns could be forever changed if the same example were set for them?  This story is one of those great examples of what kind of change one person can make.  It should be a testament to us all that if we just put the effort out there, step out of our comfort zones, and did something we know is right, the great changes that can be made are infinite.

In just this example, you have to figure the impact the recycling will have if even just a few of the participants take a moment to notice the recycle bins and instead of carelessly tossing their waste to where it will not be separated and recycled, they did the right thing and put their waste in the designated bins.  Any efforts to change have to start somewhere and it is commendable that after 25 years, it was a teen who took on the challenge to start the change at this event.

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One extra gratitude extended to this amazing student is that this year she has designed a logo that will be throughout the event that will symbolize the idea that the residents of Frederick, Maryland Recycle; she calls it, “Frederecycle.”

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Metal Recycling ~ Aluminum Recycling

Benefits of Metal Recycling – Why Recycle Metal?
Aluminum Is the Best Metal Recycling Option Today..

Mining for metals cannot be maintained ad infinitum, consequently scrap metal recycling is a natural part of the chain of reuse. Metal recycling conserves natural resources, saves energy, contributes to the U S economy and bolsters U S trade balances. Aluminum metal recycling is a very important part of any family and community recycle program.  To recycle aluminum metal is one of the easiest things you can do to help the environment.  Recycling of this and other metals began long ago and started to become commonplace back in the early 1970s.  As an added bonus recycle centers will pay you for your cans, scrap aluminum and other recyclable metal as well.

Aluminum is 100% renewable.  This means that the can you take to your local recycle center today becomes a new can.  There are no waste products in the process making aluminum a 100% renewable resource and one of the best things you can recycle.  You might be surprised to know that within 60 days an aluminum can is able to go from your center and become a brand new can to be used by consumers.   

There are many options open to you for your aluminum recycle needs.  In most areas you can take your items to your local recycle center, a community drop-off center, a reverse vending machine, curbside collection or charity collection sites.   

Your local center, or community drop-off recycling center, will take all of your cans and scrap aluminum products and pay you for them by the pound.  Right now the price of aluminum is about $1.30 a pound, but varies by area and date.  For reference a large kitchen trash bag of cans, not compacted, will pay about $3.50 at the $1.30 per pound price.

Many areas have now installed reverse vending machines.  To use one you insert your cans into it and in return the machine pays you for them.   Locally our machines require your cans to be in their original shape, not compacted down, and you can feed them in one after another.  Once you have fed in all of your cans you push a button and get a credit receipt which can be cashed in or used at the local grocery stores where they are located.  The great thing about the reverse vending machines is that you can use them at any time of day or night.  They are very convenient and easy to use. 

Here in the United States many places now offer curbside recycling.  The local waste management company, which picks up your regular garbage, will give you special recycling containers to put your aluminum recycling, paper recycling and plastic recycling items into.  On an agreed upon day of the week the local waste management company will come by and pick up all of your recycling items.  While they will not pay you for them, they do sell the materials and you see the result as a lower trash removal bill.

Community charity organizations sometimes place aluminum recycling containers out for you to put your extra aluminum cans in.  They then take the cans to your local recycling center and use the money for their charity. Metal Recycling ~ Aluminum Recycling

Recycling is by and large known as the procedure of obtaining new goods from the regeneration of used articles that resourcefully reduces factors like the use of fresh raw materials, energy consumption, various types of environmental pollution and creation of greenhouse gases,.No matter which option you choose, metal recycling is very important to both your family and your community.  Aluminum cans are one of the best items you can recycle because they are 100% renewable.

So in order to indoctrinate smart living in this fast depleting natural resource environment, metal recycling is important to our metal goods that helps save a lot of energy and a lot of other resources like water, reduces emissions of carbon dioxide like gases thus decreasing air pollution, increases the landfill space and also reduces the need to mine more and more raw materials at a faster rate thus helping in their conservation. Metal Recycling ~ Aluminum Recycling

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A Recycling Equipment Primer for Consumers…

You might be surprised to know that a lot of heavy machinery is used in your local recycling programs.  This recycling equipment is used to sort, compact and help to process your recycling materials into marketable bulk materials.  Let’s take a quick look at some of the most common recycling machinery used in recycling centers around the U.S. 

They include:   One of the most common pieces of recycling equipment is the can crusher.  Aluminum is a wonderful metal to recycle because it is 100% renewable.  The can crusher helps to remove anything which the consumer may have stuffed into a can, and then crushes the cans down as small as possible for transport to an industrial aluminum recycling plant.  Often can crushers also wash the cans in the process!  

Can Crusher:
Baler:  Another very common piece of recycling equipment is the baler.  Balers come in many sizes and types depending on what they will be used for.  Just as a hay baler turns hay from a field into bales of hay for farms, the recycling baler turns your used recyclable materials into bales of plastic and paper.  The size of the bale made depends on the baler used in the process.  These bales of plastic and paper are tied and then sold to scrap companies who cart them off to the industrial recycling plants for plastics and paper products. A handy little Can Crusher for Home and lite business use try Northern Industrial Tools Automatic Feed Can Crusher.

Conveyor:  Conveyors are commonly used in recycling.  They are used to move heavy bales and scrap metals from one area of the recycling center to another.

Sometimes they are used simply to take heavy items from consumers and dump them into a large recycling container, other times they are used to move the large bales from the baler into trucks or storage areas.

Shredder:  When we think of shredders we generally think of the small office models we all use to shred our unwanted personal or business papers.  Commercial shredders are big pieces of recycling equipment which are able to shred large amounts of paper all at one time.  The large paper and document shredders at your recycling center turn your unwanted paper into large bags of shredded material.  This material is then sent off industrial to paper recycling plants where it is converted back into paper pulp and new paper and corrugated supplies are made from it.   

Solvent Recycling Equipment:  Another common piece of recycling equipment is used for solvent recycling.  This equipment generally uses a distillation process to turn harmful solvents back into water and useful components.   

Tire Shredder:  Another popular piece of recycling equipment is the tire shredder.  This impressive machinery takes a tire and shreds it down into more manageable pieces of rubber.  This rubber is then used in things like road pavement and playgrounds.   

As you can easily see there are many kinds of large equipment used in the recycling process.  See which ones you can spot on your next trip to your local recycling center!

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