Introduction

Introduction:

This web page was created to make people reconsider and understand the importance of recycling and how you can change the planet, on which we live, to protect or to care of it. To the people make efforts to recycle at home or make recycling campaigns. That, with this information and these videos, can understand that recycling is very important not to continue polluting the planet. We the people can change the world protecting it.

Recycling Importance

Recycling importance:

Recycling is important because it is based on taking a waste and reuse it instead than throw it away and waste. Instead of throwing trash away and contaminate the environment, which we are killing by pollution, we have to recycle. Recycling may be a way to stop pollution. There are many things we can recycle such as:
Paper
Cardboard
Plastic
Glass
Metal
There are many things we can recycle beside to those mentioned above.
No recycling in the world spend millions more tons of resources (no exaggeration) and obviously we would pollute the environment more.
Recycling can get new materials such as:
New glass bottles
New Paper
We can also get more items and materials not mentioned above. One of the most developed countries in what is said recycling is Germany that is producing their own fertilizer used on crops in your country that will gain more resources and logically developed. The world needs recycling because it is very useful in finding resources and for reducing the pollution.
Any country which intends to recycle what can be achieved with just a little effort and inspiration.
Recycling is the most easily and important way in which we decrease the global warming and because of that… “WE HAVE TO RECYCLE!”

The Three “R”

The Three “R”

This simple rule allows us to care for the environment. But it is important that you do in the following order: reduce, reuse and recycle.

- Reduce: It is important to choose products with less packaging, and energy is consumed just and necessary. It also has to reduce the consumption of toxins and pollutants such as batteries.

- Reuse: As the name suggests, the return to use fewer products, fewer resources will have to spend.

- Recycling: Refers to the processing of materials that have already been used in new consumer products. You can recycle paper, cardboard, plastic, glass ... It is important to note that to carry out recycling each material must be separated.


Other Information About The Three “R”

3R stands for Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (reduce, reuse, recycle). This concept refers to strategies for waste management looking to become more sustainable with the environment and specifically to give priority to the reduction in the volume of waste generated.

Japan is credited with the creation of this idea, which in 2002 introduced the Policy for Establishing a Recycling-Oriented Society, carrying out various campaigns between civil organizations and government bodies to spread among citizens and companies the idea of the 3Rs. During the G8 Summit in June 2004, Prime Minister of Japan, Junichiro Koizumi, submitted the 3R Initiative which seeks to build a recycling-oriented society. In April 2005 held a meeting of ministers in which they discussed with the United States, Germany, France and 20 other countries how they can be implemented on an international actions related to the 3Rs.


Meaning of 3R

Reduced-referred reduce the volume of waste. For example, eating smaller packaging products or packaging made from biodegradable or recyclable materials.
Reuse "refers to use materials that can still be used, instead of discarding them. For example, using PET or glass bottles for storing water, oil or food.
Recycle-referred to transform waste materials to create new products. For example, transform waste PET bottles into fibers for making clothes.

Although these are the elements of the concept of 3R, now also refers to the following:
Reject-reject those goods or materials that will become garbage.
Repair-even if the product breaks down, is repaired to be able to continue using.
Rethink-think at the time of purchase if it is really necessary.
Lease-rent instead of owning a personal way.
Back-back to distributors items whose useful life is over, like cell phones.
Reform-redo or rebuild products like clothing, shoes, among others so they can be used again.
Convert waste to energy-those that can not be reused, can generate energy through incineration.
Due to the introduction of these concepts, some speak of 4R or 5R.

Top News

Massive Plastic Bottle Building Unveiled in Taiwan

.5 Million Bottles Used to Build It!
A building some are calling “the world’s first plastic bottle built structure” has been unveiled in Taiwan. This amazing building, dubbed the EcoARK, was constructed using a whopping 1.5 million PET bottles to raise awareness about the importance of recycling. Standing three-stories tall, the EcoARK features an amphitheater, an exhibition hall, and a screen of falling water collected during rainy periods for use as air conditioning. The designers tout the building as being “the world’s lightest, movable, breathable environmental miracle,” yet insist it’s strong enough to handle typhoons and earthquakes–but it’s sure have recycling enthusiasts blown away.

According to The China Post, the EcoARK was commissioned three years ago by the Taiwan-based Far Eastern Group at a price tag of around US$3 million, based on the three goals of “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.” The company will donate the green structure to the city next month, where it will be use as exhibition hall during the 2010 Taipei Int’l Flora Expo in November.

When asked what inspired the monument to recycling, developer Arthur Huang says it was found, well, in the trash:
When we are thinking about what type of trash to make a very, very green low carbon building, we just look at our trash can, and we noticed that in our office, most of our trash that we have are actually PET bottles, because all our engineers love drinking bottled tea.
The EcoARK, and the call for better waste management that it represents, couldn’t have come at a better time in Taiwan. It is estimated that only a mere 4 percent of the nation’s plastic bottles are recycled or reused–and with 2.4 billion bottles used annually, that adds up to a lot of waste to clutter landfills, or worse, make it out to sea.

World’s First Hotel Made of Garbage Rises in Rome

Inhabitat reader Joann Plockova writes to tell us about Rome’s newest attraction – the world’s first hotel made entirely of garbage! The Save The Beach Hotel ain’t pretty, but neither will Europe’s beaches be if its citizens don’t start cleaning up. Designed by German artist H.A. Shult as part of a publicity campaign by the environmental group Save The Beach, this trashy hotel is made of 12,000 kilograms of debris collected from Europe’s beaches.
Save The Beach hotel makes a very poignant gesture towards a very real environmental problem, and we couldn’t help seeing a certain DADAist streak in the idea. In a BBC interview Mr. Shult explains “It’s made of garbage because where ever you go on this planet there is garbage. We are living in a time of garbage on the planet which we have only rented.” The shock value is carried inside, where the five guest hotel features walls encrusted with artifacts that have been disinfected.
The Hotel is not made completely of garbage — the structure is actually a very modern system prefabricated in a German factory, and the garbage wall panels were pre-built as well (here is a video showing how they made it.) It is only fitting that the intention of the DADA art movement — to shock and disorient — is still alive and well at the service of environmental awareness. Unfortunately, they don’t take reservations as the building is only there temporarily.

9 World Cup teams wear jerseys made from recycled bottles


Nine teams competing in the World Cup will be wearing environmentally friendly jerseys made from recycled plastic bottles when the tournament kicks off in South Africa on Friday.

Front-runners Brazil, the Netherlands and Portugal are among the teams who will be sporting the shirts made in Taiwan, the island's cabinet said Thursday.

Each jersey is made from eight plastic bottles that are melted and processed into polyester and is 13 percent lighter and can absorb and disperse sweat more quickly than traditional fabric, the cabinet said in a statement.

Environmentally conscious Taiwan is keen to promote green technology and architecture as it seeks to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

A Taiwanese company has turned 1.5 million recycled plastic bottles into a nine-story pavilion for an international floral show on the island later this year.

Manuality

Manuality with old jeans

Do you have a jean that is broken?
Do not throw it away; transform it into this:

Extra pocket

Materials:
Old jeans
self-adhesive Velcro
scissors
colored cloth
pin
clips
belt

Procedure:
1) Cut one of the back pockets of the jean. Fold back the excess fabric and secure it by attaching with velcro.

2) Take different colored rags and cut them in several ways. Later put the forms in the pocket with a pin.

3) Add a keychain made of clips. Pass a belt through the slats and put it to your waist:
Already have an extra pocket!