Recycling Domestic Waste

Introduction

 There is a wide range of services and facilities to recycle

domestic waste. As well as reducing the volume of waste going
to landfill sites, recycling and composting your domestic waste
helps to minimize charges for waste collection.
 Many of the items used in the home can be recycled. The
benefits of recycling include a cleaner environment, the safe
disposal of hazardous materials, greater awareness of excess
packaging and a careful approach to the use and re-use of
materials.
 Many products carry international recycling symbols that help to
identify how they can be re-used and/or disposed of safely.
 Various approaches

 Mobile phones are able to be recycled at the end of their life. Rapid technology
change, low initial cost, and even planned obsolescence have resulted in a fast-
growing surplus, which contributes to the increasing amount of electronic waste
around the globe.
 Appliance recycling consists of dismantling waste home appliances and scrapping their
parts for reuse. Recycling appliances for their original or other purposes, involves
disassembly, removal of hazardous components and destruction of the end-of-life
equipment to recover materials, generally by shredding, sorting and grading.
 Sustainable Electronics Initiative (SEI) is an initiative started in the United States in the
summer of 2009 by the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, which is a division of
the Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability of the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign. SEI is dedicated to developing and implementing sustainable means for
the design, manufacturing, remanufacturing, and recycling of electronics.
 Advantages of recycling

• Recycling minimizes pollution

• Protects the environment
• Recycling minimizes global warming
• Conserves natural resources
• Recycling cuts down amount of waste in
landfill sites
• Recycling ensures sustainable use of
resources
• Recycling contributes to creation of jobs
• Reduces energy consumption
 Disadvantages of recycling

• High upfront capital costs.

• Recycling sites are always unhygienic, unsafe and
unsightly.
• Products from recycled waste may not be durable.
• Recycling might not be inexpensive
• Recycling is not widespread on large scale
 Benefits of recycling domestic
waste

Waste that is not separated for recycling is incinerated at the Bellozanne Energy from Waste
Plant. Although we generate electricity from burning rubbish, incineration creates ash which must
be disposed of and releases gases into the atmosphere. 
By reducing your waste and recycling as much as possible, you will be helping to reduce the
production of ash and gas from the Energy from Waste Plant and saving the world’s precious
resources.
 Recycling saves resources
 Recycling saves energy
 Recycling helps protect the environment
 Recycling reduces incineration
 Causes of recycling domestic waste

 Uses lot of electricity:

Most of the natural resources are being used to get the electricity, that all
have some impacts on the environment.
 Creates lots of toxic waste:
Most of us are updating our computers, throwing our outdated computer
resources, peripherals, and other hardware devices etc., these are the hazardous
toxic waste we are producing that really damaging the environment now a days.
 Impact of Electricity to the Environment
The Electric power produces more pollution to the environment.
 Impact of Toxic waste to the Environment
The computer crowding our landfills contains lead, mercury, cadmium, beryllium and
traces of many other hazardous materials
 Ways for recycling domestic waste

How do I recycle?
 There are several ways of arranging to recycle waste. You can
take it to a recycling facility or use a curbside collection.
 There are 3 types of permanent recycling facility: bring banks,
civic amenity sites and recycling centers
What can I put in my recycling bin?
 Paper and cardboard
 Rigid plastic (washed and dry)
 Tins and cans (washed and dry)
Approaches

 Dumpster diving, commonly referred to in the UK and many parts of Europe as totting,
skipping, skip diving or skip salvage, is a popular form of modern salvaging of waste in
large commercial, residential, industrial and construction containers to find items that
have been discarded by their owners, but that may prove useful to the picker.
 It is not confined to dumpsters specifically, and may cover standard household waste
containers, landfills or small dumps. Different terms are used to refer to different forms
of this activity. For picking materials from the curbside trash collection, curb shopping,
trash picking or street scavenging are sometimes used. When seeking primarily metal
to be recycled, one is scrapping.
Conclusion

 The effect that waste has on our natural environment and ultimately on the quality of
our life has been made public in worldwide debates. The problems related to waste
have many dimensions.
 In economically challenged communities, the scope and magnitude of the problem
may often exceed the capacity that local authorities have to effectively resolve issues
of waste collection and disposal, in addition to other difficult city managerial tasks.
 Bearing in mind the complexity of nature and cities, the ecological conditions of urban
areas are viewed as the necessary measures for environmental protection and
recovery.