IMPORTANCE OF RECYCLING

SUBMITED BY:- Amit Ghaywankar 1

 INDEX
• What is recycling?
• Type of waste
• Solid waste management practices.
• History of waste generation.
• Amount of waste generated.
• Why recycling?
• Some interesting facts about recycling.

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 What Is Recycling?

• It is an artificial word and unifies the syllable ‘RE’ standing for back to original
place again and ‘CYCLE’.
• However the term recycle is quite new the basic principle of recycling are much
older
• Or it is the process of converting waste material into new materials and objects

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 Types Of Waste

• Hospital waste or Biomedical waste

• Municipal waste or household
waste
• Construction and demolition waste
• Sanitation residue
• Waste from street
• Industrial waste
• E-waste
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 Solid Waste Management Practices
• Segregation
• Collection
• Reuse/recycle
• Transportation
• Disposal
 Open dumping
 Landfilling
 Landfill gas-to-energy plants

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 History Of Waste generation.
• Over the centuries waste management was a sanitary
activity and it was sufficient that garbage was
transported out of cities.
• However after word war II, the amount generated waste
was increasing tremendously
• Hence environmental an health problems such as
pollution of air, soil and ground water occurred
• But Current European waste policy does not mainly aim
treat waste streams but rather place in the foreground of
interest the supply chain of product.
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 Amount Of Waste Generated
States/union Quantity of
country Per capita waste
territory waste
generation
(grams/day) generated(trill
ions per year)
India 370
Maharashtra 8.1
Denmark 2200
USA 2000 West Bengal 5.7
china 700 Uttar Pradesh 4.75

Tamil Nadu 4.3

Delhi 4.2
Andra Pradesh 4.15

Chandigarh 1.7
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 Trash creates pollution (soil/air/water)
Why Recycling?
Recycling helps built communities

Creates jobs

Recycling Reduces Toxic E-Waste

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 Some Interesting Facts About Recycling
• More than 60% of rubbish that
ends up in dust bin can be recycled.

• 80% of vehicle can be recycled.

• Glass can be recycled 100% and

reused.
• .
• It has been observed that 24 trees
are cut down to make one ton of
paper.

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• Plastics, which can often be recycled, take around
500 years to decompose.

• One recycled tin can saves enough energy

to power a television for 3 hours.

• 70% less energy is utilized to recycle

paper compared to making it from raw materials.

• Similarly when you recycle one glass bottle, it can

save enough energy to power a personal computer
for 25 minutes
 References
• Wikipedia
• Sage journal “moving from recycling to waste prevention” by
Andreas Barti
• Status and challenges of municipal solid waste management in
India: A review Raj Kumar Joshi and Sirajuddin Ahmed
• http://swmindia.blogspot.com

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 THANK YOU

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