Recycling Glass

Shania Camenzuli & Shanice Farrugia

Frequent Glass Recycling Questions

What’s the difference between window glass, mirror glass and a drinking glass?Non-container glass like that used to make windows, mirrors and drinking glasses is often treated with chemicals, so these items all have different melting points. This means you will not be able to recycle non-container glass in your curbside recycling and will need to seek out alternatives.

Glass is one of the few materials that can be recycled infinitely

without losing strength, purity or quality. It is a widely recycled material, but beware: broken

glass can be painful for both you and the recycling process.

Can I recycle glass if it’s broken?Broken glass is recyclable and may be turned into new products like fiberglass, tile and flooring. However, broken glass cannot be placed in your curbside bin because it could injure sanitation workers. Check to see if any local facilities will accept broken glass or seek out a reuse project.Do I need to prepare glass in some way before I recycle it?As long as the glass is not broken, you do not need to prepare it for recycling. Just be careful to cushion glass if you are transporting it for recycling or donation so it doesn’t end up broken

Frequent Glass Recycling Question

s• What’s the difference between window

glass, mirror glass and a drinking glass?• Non-container glass like that used to make windows, mirrors and

drinking glasses is often treated with chemicals, so these items all have different melting points.This means you will not be able to recycle non-container glass in your curbside recycling and will need to seek out alternatives.

• Can I recycle glass if it’s broken?• Broken glass is recyclable and may be turned into new products

like fiberglass, tile and flooring. However, broken glass cannot be placed in your curbside bin because it could injure sanitation workers. Check to see if any local facilities will accept broken glass or seek out a reuse project.

• Do I need to prepare glass in some way before I recycle it?• As long as the glass is not broken, you do not need to prepare it

for recycling. Just be careful to cushion glass if you are transporting it for recycling or donation so it doesn’t end up broken.

How glass is recycled

Step 1

• The consumer throws glass into a recycle bin.

Step 2

• Glass is taken from the bin and taken to a glass treatment plant.

Step 3

• The glass is sorted by colour and washed to remove any impurities.

Step 4

• The glass is then crushed and melted, then moulded into new products such as bottles and jars. Or it may be used for alternative purposes such as brick manufacture or decorative uses.

Step 5

• The glass is then sent back to the shops ready to be used again.

Step 6

• Glass does not degrade through the recycling process, so it can be recycled again and again.

Recycling:Glass

Martha and Maria

The process of glass recycling

Step 1:

• The consumer throws glass into a recycle bin.

Step 2:

• Glass is taken from the bin and taken to a glass treatment plant.

Step 3:

•The glass is sorted by colour and washed to remove any impurities. The glass is then crushed and melted, then moulded into new products such as bottles and jars.

Recycling glass in Malta

• A new door-to-door service collecting glass will be held every first Friday of the month across Malta under the GreenPak scheme.

• GreenPak’s recycling advisers are visiting households to explain the new glass collection service. Residents will have to place their waste glass in cardboard boxes behind their doors. Upon collection, these boxes will be left behind the door to be reused.

Kelsey and Janice

PaperRuth Grima and Martha Vella

Form 4.1

Saint Theresa College, Girls Secondary, Imriehel.

What is Paper?

• Paper is a thin material produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets.

• Paper is used for many different reasons such as, writing, for packaging, in cleaning products, ect.

Fun Facts About Paper• Paper is nearly 2000

years old.• It is thought to have

been invented in China in the year 105AD by a man called Cai Lun.

Fun Facts About Paper• Before then other material such as papyrus

(from which the term ‘paper’ originated) was used as parchment in Ancient Egypt, and animal skins were used in Europe.

• According to Guinness World Records, the largest sheet of handmade paper was produced by Masaki Takahashi and Kazuki Maeda in Toyama, Japan on 19 August 2009.

Fun Facts About Paper

• Every year, the junk mail industry destroys approximately 100 million trees.

• The production and disposal of junk mail uses up more energy than what is used by 3 million cars!

• All this just so you can get some mail that you’re probably not going to look at anyway.

Fun Facts About Paper

Very Common

Questions.

What happens to the paper after we throw it in the recycling bin?

• Paper would go to a recycling plant where the paper would be separated into types and grades.

• The separated paper is then washed with soapy water to remove inks, plastic film, staples and glue.

What happens to the paper after we throw it in the recycling bin?

• The paper is put into a

large holder where it is mixed with water to create ‘slurry’.

What happens to the paper after we throw it in the recycling bin?

• 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.

You didn’t understand everything? This is a simpler way to explain it:

Is recycling worth it?

Let’s put it this way, recycling decreases

about 6M tons of waste out of full landfills and…

it could save 41K of trees!

What could we do other than separate the paper from the other waste?

• We could use every paper more than once, especially when one of the sides was not used.

• Instead of throwing away junk mail and newspapers, we could make use of it in another way, for example in crafts.

What could we do other than separate the paper from the other waste?

• When you want to write the shopping list, make rough sketches or write mathematical workings that are not needed you could use used paper.

So the next time you are going to throw a paper away, think

twice!

When you save papers, you save trees and you decrease

the amount of waste in the landfills! Thus, you protect the

environment!

Recycling Paper

Mariah & Harley

What does recycling mean?

How can we recycle paper?Gar

den &

Garage

• Turn newspaper and office paper into mulch.• Protect against spills.• Add newspaper to the compost.

Office

• Print on the back.• Create a notepad.

House

• Make cat litter from shredded newspaper.

Recycling Through a Waste Management Service

Contact your local waste management company. Ask them about their available recycling services, as well as any recycling centres in your area. Ask them for details on what can and cannot be recycled.

Sort and place your recycling on the curb. If your waste management company offers recycling, then take your sorted recyclables out to the curb in the recycle bins on trash day.

Take your old paper to a recycling centre. If your local sanitation company doesn’t support recycling, or you have too much to fit into a bin, pack up your recyclables and take them to your local recycling centre.

What can and can’t be recycled?Can Newspaper magazines maps packaging envelopes cardboard

Can’t Waxed paper laminated

paper pet food bags food-soaked

paper

So remember…RECYCLE!!!!

The End

PaperShania Micallef

Erika Scerri

• Paper can be used on each side.• It can be thrown into the recycle bin so that

they can me recycled once more.

Printing

• When printing it is important to print double sided

• And if it it’s not necessary do not print in colour but print in black and white.

• When recycled it can be made into recycled paper.

• When doing an essay you can write the plot on a rough paper.

Recycling Materials

PaperRebekah Camilleri 4.03

Why recycle paper?

• A typical office generates about one pound of paper per employee and that from that paper, 77 percent of what is wasted in offices across the country is recyclable.

• Most of the paper wasted is high grade paper.

• Using old paper to make new paper uses 30 to 50 percent less energy than making paper from trees.

• Pollution is also reduced by 95 percent when used paper is made into new sheets.

• 40 percent of all waste going to landfills is paper. Cutting down on paper waste will extend the lives of our landfills.

• Newspaper can be recycled into egg cartons, game boards, new newspaper, gift boxes, animal bedding, insulation and packaging material.

What can be recycled?

White Paper

Coloured Paper

Booklets

Newspapers

Magazines

Recycling saves…

• For every ton of paper that is recycled, the following are saved:

17 trees275 pounds of sulfur350 pounds of limestone9,000 pounds of steam60,000 gallons of water225 kilowatt hours3.3 cubic yards of landfill space