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Tire Recycling Is Vital to Protecting the Environment from Toxic Pollution

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Would you be surprised to know that in United States approximately one tire per person is discarded each year?
That amounts to approximately 250 million scrap tires which need to be dealt with each and every year.  In addition there are another 45 million which are recycled to make retreads for large trucks.  With the sheer volume, tire recycling becomes a very important environmental issue in the U.S.

In the old days, before the 1960s, rubber from scrap tires was usually recycled.  However, with the influx of cheap oil imports, which are the raw material behind synthetic rubber, tire recycling became less attractive as an option.  At this time reclaimed rubber became less valuable and the steel belts in tires made recycling more expensive, difficult, and time-consuming.

Scrap tires can become a serious environmental problem and tire recycling takes a large part in helping to relieve the environmental damage.  If placed in your local landfill, this tire scrap can damage the linings which are in the landfill to prevent ground and surface water from mixing with the contaminated substances in the landfill.  Because of this, many people choose to dump illegally if recycling facilities are not available to them.  The illegally dumping become an eyesore and can drag down surrounding property values.

Tire Scrap can also provide serious health threats to both people and the environment.  Because of their unusual shape, they will hold water in them from the rain.

This rain water provides a prime breeding ground for mosquitoes.  There are many mosquito-borne diseases which can be harmful to people and livestock.  For this reason alone recycling is a much better option than tire piles and dumps.

One of the most tragic environmental disasters can happen when tire piles catch on fire.  Tire pile fires can burn for months on end, and emit huge black acrid plumes of smoke.  The smoke can cover miles and contains many toxic chemicals and air pollutants.  At the same time the horrible toxic smoke is filling the air, there is an oily runoff from them as well.  This oily runoff is also toxic to the environment and people as well.

Due to the harmful effects of a tire fire, recycling is now common in the U.S.  The first line of recycling is using all tires until they are no longer usable.  Many tire businesses sell partially used tires for less cost than new ones.  The next step in the recycling process is retreading.  Once a tire can no longer be used they are recycled. [drpcoupon name="ClipnGoCoupons"]

It is interesting to note that very little rubber from a used tire actually goes into the production of new tires!  Generally the rubber is chipped and shredded.  These chips and shreds are used in asphalt and rubber athletic surfaces.

Today there are many uses for chipped and shredded rubber.  This makes a large market for tire recyclers for their products.  By reducing the use of virgin rubber, and recycling when possible, it saves both the environment as well as manufacturing costs.

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Be Kind to Mother Earth: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
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Recycling:  Are You Doing Everything You Can?

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It may come as a surprise to you, but there is a really good chance that the town or city you live in offer a service you may not have heard of; an energy audit.  Cities and towns all over the country have started doing this, where an auditor comes to your home and goes through your living space and helps you to see where you could make changes that will not only help you conserve energy but will help you save money!  What a bonus it is to save money by doing the right thing.

There are so many changes you can make in your home to impact the way we recycle and in the end, will help you keep some of the money in your pocket.

Having recycling bins set up so that you can properly sort the items that are recycled is a great first step.  That activity alone can cut down greatly on the items that end up in the landfills rather than where they can be recycled.

Keeping your televisions, DVDs, stereos and computers plugged in to a power strip or surge protector rather than directly into the wall and then turning off the power strip will cut back greatly on power “leaks” that can cost you money on your utility bill.  Being aware to turn these items off, is the first step, and then having them plugged into the power strip will just further the action for saving money and energy.

Don’t leave a light on when you walk out of a room and no one else is in there.  And have you changed your light bulbs from the traditional ones to the compact flourescent kind?  Did you know that the newer lights use 75% less energy to run and they will out live a traditional light bulb by up to 10 years?  Make the changes that need to be made in your home.

Don’t run the dishwasher or the washing machine unless they are full.  It’s a waste of energy and water to run a cycle through the dishwasher when it’s only half full.  Don’t turn it on until you have a full load to wash and then just wash them all at once.

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Use microfiber cloths for cleaning all kinds of surfaces like furniture, counters and sinks.  The bonus is that these items can be tossed into the washer and are perfectly able to be reused again and again.  Think of the savings in paper towels alone!  Talk about a win-win; if we use fewer paper towles, then that means fewer trees need to be cut to make them in the first place.  How can we go wrong with thinking like that?

Take shorter showers and see if you can pick up a shower head that is a water-conserving item, already in place, that will save you money and you’ll never even notice the difference during your shower.

There is so much you can do in the efforts to recycle, just be sure you’re doing your part.

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 What should you do when your car is no longer operable? Maybe you have had an unfortunate accident, or maybe you have been nursing along your 20+ year old car and its last day has just simply arrived. One popular option for disposing of your vehicle is to recycle it. Auto recycling Recycling Scrap Services is one of the oldest recycling programs in the world. People have been dismantling cars for decades and reusing the various parts from them. Once everything is removed from the shell, the car is crushed and the steel sent off for melting and reuse.

A used part from a salvage yard is generally about 50% cheaper than buying a new part from the local automotive dealership. However, the actual price of the part depends on how hard that part is to find on the open market. A rarer part will obviously be more expensive.

Some salvage yards dismantle the vehicles as they come in and sell off the reusable parts.
Generally the first step in the dismantling process of auto recycling is to drain the various fluids from the vehicle. This is a very important step because most fluids in a vehicle are toxic to the environment. Some of the drained fluids are able to be recycled and others are not. Gasoline and brake fluids are resold while power steering and windshield washing fluids are not.

Depending on the type of salvage yard doing the auto recycling, their operations may include dismantling the vehicle, draining fluids from vehicles, crushing the shell of the vehicle, and sometimes even shredding the metal of a vehicle. The metal which is crushed or shredded is then sold as scrap to industrial metal recycling plants. Plastics from the vehicles are either thrown in the landfill or recycled whenever possible. All of the usable drained fluids, parts, batteries and tires are either stored at the auto salvage yard for resale, or properly disposed of.

Environmental contamination is a very real concern for auto recycling businesses. There are many toxic substances contained within each vehicle. The air, groundwater and soil can be contaminated during fluid drainage and part removal. Improper storage of batteries and fluids can also cause environmental problems. This is one of the main reasons why vehicles are generally dismantled outdoors and on paved surfaces where spills can be contained and cleaned up. This also lessens the possibility of fires from flammable liquids such as gasoline and break fluid.

Automobiles also contain other toxic substances such as asbestos, lead and mercury. Proper handling of these substances is one key to keeping them out of the landfill and out of the environment.

When you vehicle has reached the end of its life, know that it can be recycled and its parts used in other vehicles. Auto recycling has been around for decades and it is very easy to see why it makes so much sense.

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Step 2 – Toss It, Don’t Bring It Inside

The second step in eliminating all of the clutter and trash in your home is to sort your mail outside near your trash can or a shredder. I would estimate about 80% of the mail received in my home never enters my house. We tend to get a lot of junk mail and excess items which we will never look at or use. To help keep the clutter and trash at bay, I sort and open all of the mail near the outside trash and recycling container. Anything that does not absolutely need to come into the house is disposed of before it ever reaches the front door.

Step 3 – Reuse

Once items are in your home, and have been used, look at ways to reuse them before they are either recycled or thrown in the trash. This can easily include washing out a Zip lock bag which was used for something other than meat products and reusing your plastic containers for your leftovers or lunch box. Look at each item you would normally throw away or recycle and see if it has another use for you first.

Step 4 – Recycle

After an item is no longer of use to you investigate whether or not it can be recycled in your area. Take a quick visit to your local community recycling center and find out what items they will accept for recycling. Most local recycling centers will accept aluminum, plastics, glass and paper. Find out the specifics in your area and make sure to take all recyclable items to the recycling center.

Step 5 – Compost

Most kitchen waste can be easily composted. It is a myth that composting requires a large space and special expensive composting equipment. The easy way to start composting is to find a kitchen compost container. Your compost container can be something as simple as an old margarine tub or as fancy as a stainless steel compost pail. Place all unused foods into your compost container, except for meat products. Meat products will attract flies and other unwanted pests to your compost pile! Into your compost bucket you will place vegetable and fruit trimmings, coffee grounds, coffee filters and any bread products. Each day simply take your compost container out and dump it in a pile in your yard. Turn over the pile occasionally and you will have an amazing quality soil to use in your garden and around your plants.

I hope these five steps help you to think about ways that you can reduce, reuse and recycle in your own home. If everyone does their part the world will be a much better place to live.Recycling Bins
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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!  

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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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When asked why they do not recycle, the number one answer people give is that they do not have an area in which to store their recyclable materials.  The second answer is generally that they are confused as to which items are recyclable and which are not.  There are some very simple solutions to both of these issues and with a bit of education more people would begin to recycle.

The first thing you need to do to start a recycling program in your home is to contact your local community recycle center.  Your local recycling center is there to help you better understand the process and also to help you with which items can be recycled in your specific area of the country.  You can give them a call or visit their location.  You will want to ask them about their programs in your area and how they want to see materials coming into their center.  For example, do you need to wash out your cans and bottles before bringing them in?  Or, do you need to smash your aluminum cans at home before bringing them?

Once you understand what your local recycle center accepts, it is time to work on getting the right recycling bins for your needs.  Recycling bins are available in a lot of different shapes, sizes and colors.  How many bins you will need depends on which items you will be recycling, and how much space you have readily available for you to work with.

Most community recycling centers today will accept aluminum, plastic, glass, cardboard and newspapers to be recycled. You may want to have bins for each of these different types of materials, or you may want to keep just one or two bins and separate your materials before you get to the center.

Aluminum Recycling Bins:  For aluminum cans you will want a large bin if you drink lots of soda which comes in cans.  You do not need an aluminum recycling bin if you do not drink soda.

Plastics Recycling Bins:  For plastics you will want at least one recycling bin and possibly more, to save space consider stackable recycling bins, if you have a lot of plastic waste in your home.  Community recycling centers generally require you to sort your plastic recyclables by plastic type.  You can generally find the type of plastics by the number on the bottom of most plastic containers.  

Glass Recycling Bins:  You will probably only need one recycling bin for glass, however you will have to sort the glass into colors at the recycling center.   

Cardboard Recycle Bins:  If you use a lot of boxed products, then you will find a recycling bin for cardboard will come in handy.  Newspapers and other paper can generally be kept in a paper grocery bag and taken to the recycling center in that.

If you have a small space, but a lot of materials you want to recycle on a regular basis, consider purchasing stackable bins.  Stackable recycling bins use vertical space and are widely available for purchase.  Another option is to use recycling bins which sit in bottom cabinets in your kitchen.  These bins sit on sliders and you pull them out of your bottom cabinet to insert your recyclable materials into them. Also, check out this recommended resource Eco Books; Inventive Projects from the Recycling Bin

If you have a large garage or other storage area where you can hold more recyclable materials, I would suggest purchasing the ten gallon tubs with handles at your local home improvement store.  You can easily put them into your vehicle to take to the recycling center because the are light and easy to carry. 

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