Waste food can be composted
Plastics can be used as wall insulation or compacted into building materials
Plastic bottle can of course be recycled, but they can also be filled with sand and used as bricks, cut and used as funnels etc
Recycling needs imagination, old CDs and DVD can be used as garden bird scarers, if you think hard enough it's hard to find anything that cant be in some way or the other..
Before Scott Paper was broken up and sold off, they avoided the mantra of "reduce, reuse, recycle", preferring "reduce, replant, recycle". They were best known for their toilet paper; reuse was not an option. Neither was post-consumer recycling. When paper is recycled, the wood fibres are broken and may be too short for further recycling. This means that paper towels, facial tissue, toilet tissue, and paper insulation are effectively non-recyclable. Theoretically, they could be composted, though.
Other non-recyclables are mixed plastics (with a 7 as recycling code, although not all 7s), unless they are made into low-grade plastic lumber.
Cling wrap (glad wrap, cling film) cannot be recycled as it contains a plastic that doesn't break down.
Some plastics
Packaging film, from the top of ready meals etc
Polystyrene and packing peanuts
Plastic bags that are not biodegradable, black plastic sacks
Here are some of the things that CANNOT be recycled:
- needles
- syringes
- light bulbs
- disposable diapers
- alkaline batteries
Hope that helps.
paper can be recycled and be made new paper
waste water can be receclyed and treated for agriculture.if passed with ultravoilet it can be used for irrigation.
the organic waste can be recycled and can be used as fertilisers.
good luck
I have to write an essay arguing the case that landfill is still a realistic way of dealing with the domestic waste that we produce.
One of my points is that not everything can be recycled, but I need examples. Any help appreciated, thank you.
