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Recycling Center

In order to preserve the environment for future generations and to ensure good health for all, recycling has become the need of the day. The act of processing used or abandoned materials and creating new goods out of it is called recycling. Many everyday goods can be recycled, including automotive equipment, batteries, construction equipment, electronics, glass, metal, paper, organics, plastic, and paint products.

There are recycling centers all across the country where citizens can deposit their unwanted waste. In order to encourage citizens to recycle, many communities have curbside recycling services. People have to separate their waste and the local authorities will, on specified days, pick goods from the curbside. There are even some recycling centers that pay you for dropping off recyclable goods.

People need to be told which kind of material can be recycled and where it can be dropped off. Batteries, for example, leak toxic material into the soil. It’s cheaper in the long run to buy rechargeable ones. Watch and calculator batteries can be taken to a jeweler for recycling. Old car batteries should be taken to your nearest Household Waste Recycling Center where they’ll be recycled. Unused or out of date medicines should not be junked at home. Take them to your local chemist where they will dispose of them safely for you.

Old books, tapes, records, CDs, videos, games should be taken to the local second-hand music or charity shop where they’ll be donated or re-sold for charity.

Plastic is expensive to recycle and takes 500 years to biodegrade. There are however, a number of neighborhood recycling centers to which you can take your plastic bottles. Some stores collect plastic bags for recycling. Most Neighborhood Recycling Centers have paper banks and glass banks.

Some cities have started schemes to impart 'ownership' of a recycling center to the local community in which it is located. Through this they hope to reduce problems of vandalism and increase the weight of waste paper, glass and cans collected for recycling.

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