While recycling programs are often touted to the public, the true numbers are abysmal. Sustainable waste management programs would benefit from today’s consumers participating fully in waste reduction and recycling programs. More than 80% of urban waste should end up in recycling plants, but less than one-fourth of the garbage makes it to recycling facilities. And for every one plastic bottle that’s recycled, another four will end up in a landfill. With recycling programs popping up in cities and throughout college campuses, there are many compelling reasons to recycle.
Although youthful consumers and students demand more environmentally friendly products and packaging, the piles of trash don’t lie. While 69% of surveyed college students supported increased trust of companies that deliver more environmentally sound products, people over 40 are 10% more likely to recycle than younger populations. But plastic recycling is clearly worth the effort, with an extremely high return on investment.
If you recycle just one aluminum can per day for a year, you’ll save enough energy to power your television for four hours a day for six months. The rewards of recycling are high! There’s a lot to be done, but education, engagement, and consumer action is the first step. Check out this infographic for more information about plastic pollution statistics:
Salman is a prolific environmental writer, and has authored more than 500 articles in reputed journals, magazines and websites. He is proactively engaged in creating mass awareness on renewable energy, waste management, sustainability and conservation all over the world.
Salman can be reached on salman@cleantechloops.com
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Originally posted 2015-06-16 21:12:53. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
We have recently commercialised a waste plastic (pp pe &ps) conversion into EuroV equivalent fuel. System starts with as small as 5 tons per day input with an extraction rate of about 80%. This is a commercially attractive recycling business. At present we are developing a model with joint ventures to undertake the recycling of waste plastic into fuel. The typical investment for a small unit of 5tpd is USD 5 million. Perhaps this could contribute to the needed solutions to our plastics nightmare. Adan Yusof
Dear Adan
Thanks for sharing information about your innovative waste-to-energy system. Shall be happy to discuss avenues of collaboration at salman@cleantechloops.com
Best wishes
Salman Zafar
Founder, Cleantech Solutiuons
the scale of economic activity through consumption of fuels like diesel for transport and plastics for packaging increases multifold when water is delivered at a price to the user in bottles and tankers…beneficiaries from this nature of economic activity have increased over the years and no visible effort is noticeable to substitute this mode of delivery by getting the pipeline network to work effectively and from supplementing or reinforcing existing pipeline networks for improved service delivery