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Feb 5, 2010 at 11:33 o\clock

Recycling of paper proves to be a blessing in disguise:

by: businessworld

It takes 17 full grown trees to make one tonne of paper. The awareness of this one fact can encourage people to take serious steps towards recycling of paper. Recycling is a process driven by the goodwill to save the environment from running out of its precious and valuable resources. It is the collection of used articles subjected to further processing that utilizes minimum energy in the re-manufacture of the same product with most of its properties retained.

Paper is one of the most exhaustively consumed product in our daily routine. It is an integral part of every home, business, educational institution, hospitals, courts, offices  and various other establishments. It occupies the major portion of the wastes disposed off everyday making it the topmost material that is used and disposed. By recycling just one morning newspaper we can save cutting down of 41,000 trees and greatly reduce the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted due to process carried out during waste disposals also concisely known as carbon footprint (a measure of carbon dioxide released). While the manufacturing process of paper involves chopping up or burning the trees leading to humongous loss of energy and fuel, the recycling process uses 60% lesser energy for the same.

Papers that can be easily recycled are newspapers, shredded paper, phonebooks, cardboard, magazines, envelopes, calendars etc. and these can be refurbished to form new products like egg cartons, paper towels, tissue, toilet paper, newspaper, paper bags, notebooks, stamps and so on. The best part of paper recycling is that there is minimal usage of chemicals like bleaches which in turn is safer for the environment.

Some of the major benefits of recycling paper are reduction in the amount of landfill space occupied, considerable reduction in the number of trees being used up for its production, the resulting reduction in deforestation that would otherwise lead to increased erosion of soil, disruption of water cycle, loss of biodiversity, flooding and drought, climate changes, recycling of paper also reduces emission of sulfur dioxide, minimizes use of fossil fuels and finally saves immeasurable amount of energy.

The steps towards recycling of paper can be carried out on a personal basis,smaller or larger scale. As an initial step that an individual can contribute towards successful recycling of paper is to sort out paper from other materials in trash, and categorize them according to their type. You may then take your collection of used paper to a local recycling center or recycling bin. These huge chunks of used paper are then transported to a paper mill where the paper is stored in warehouses and used up as required. Paper is grouped according to their various grades of quality. These are then passed on to large conveyors into a pulping machine wherein the pulpier chops the paper in a mixture of water and some chemicals, into small pieces. The mixture is then heated and tiny cellulose strands are formed following its breakdown. The mixture is then screened and filtered to remove unwanted impurities, is cleaned, deinked- a process undertaken to eliminate inks off the printed parts of the paper, refined, bleached and stripped off color. This product is sent into final processing which gives out sheets of white paper ready to be used yet again. 

Feb 5, 2010 at 10:52 o\clock

Procedures involved in metal recycling:

by: businessworld

Recycling is generally known as the process of obtaining new products from the renewal of used articles that efficiently reduces factors like the consumption of fresh raw materials, energy consumption, various types of environmental pollution and production of greenhouse gases. It is essential to conserve natural raw materials so that we are not drained off our valuable resources and preserve the ecological balance of nature.

Metals form an integral part of our day to day lives. The various products we use on a regular basis include goods like household appliances, cutlery, aluminum beverage cans, steel cans, various types of pins and needles, some disposable medical products and so on. It is believed that the metals like aluminuim and steel have high scrap metal recycling value, so the more we recycle them the more is the energy and money saved. Recycling metals is so efficient such that it uses 95% less energy consumed in the manufacturing of the same. Other metals like copper, brass, bronze, zinc, magnesium, tin and lead are also conveniently recycled.

The most significant advantage of recycling of metals is that no matter how many times you recycle them they retain their properties and are ready to be used all over again with the same efficiency, unlike some other articles like plastic. The most commonly used metals in domestic environments are aluminum and steel. Aluminium is an ore naturally occurring in nature as a mineral combined with oxygen. Manufacture of aluminum involves inducing huge amounts of electrical energy to separate the oxygen from the aluminuim. It is then melted and shaped into various products. Similarly, steel is created in an hot blast furnace involving a chemical reaction, during which iron ore, that is the raw material used in the process, is separated from its oxygen content. Both these metal production processes consumes enormous amounts of energy. On the contrary, their recycling process only uses about 4% of this total energy, which has many positive implications including reduction of energy consumption and emission of greenhouse gases.

For recycling metals, they are first sorted out into two major categories. One is ferrous metals, these are made up of steel and iron while the other is non-ferrous metals, such as aluminuim, copper, nickel, brass, titanium, lead, chromium, etc. Non ferrous metals are easily recycled as compared to the ferrous metals. Household metal scraps are sorted based on the above categories. Steel cans are melted down and impurities are separated and thus the recycled product obtained is widely used in the construction industry. The other by products are used to make more cans and other similar products. On the other hand, aluminum cans are compressed and melted down followed by removal of impurities and are then rolled into sheets that find numerous applications again. This process is far more faster and the recycled product are back into the market in no time.

So inorder to inculcate smart living in this rapidly depleting natural resource environment, it is important to recycle your metal goods that helps save a lot of energy and a lot of other resources like water, reduces emissions of carbon dioxide like gases thus decreasing air pollution, increases the landfill space and also reduces the need to mine more and more raw materials at a faster rate thus helping in their preservation.

Feb 5, 2010 at 10:19 o\clock

Plastic recycling: A Know-How

by: businessworld

Plastics is one of the most extensively used products of the modern generation. It is widely seen used as a packaging product of almost everything that you can think of, in the making of toys, household goods, making of all kind of cards like credit cards, sim cards, shopping cards, identity cards and so on. Although the use of plastic has many positive influences in our day to day lives they are also known to have a substantial number of health and environmental hazards. There are categories of plastic that can be recycled and that cannot. It is manufactured by the combination of petroleum or natural gas with oxygen or chlorine. This process requires the burning of huge amounts of oil. So more the petroleum we burn to make new plastic products, the more greenhouse gases we release into the air. Plastic takes up of about 10% of the total waste products disposed away into the landfills and only 5% of these are actually renewable.

To curb this alarming rate of growing environmental hazard it is important to create awareness about recycling of plastics with a few contributions to the society on our part. Recycling plastics can save a lot of energy in the form of reduction in oil and petroleum consumption and save a considerable amount of space in our landfills. Plastics require a more complicated processing for its recycling as compared to glass and metals. They are made up of higher molecular weight polymer chains for which application of heat itself is not sufficient. There are two major hindrances in efficient plastic recycling. One is that, when different plastics are melted together, due to their variable compositions, they tend to separate like oil and water and renewing them into a new plastic only results in the yield of structurally weak polymer blends with a lot of limitations in their application. The other is that, certain additives used in the manufacture of plastics like dyes, filters and so on are too difficult to be separated or removed and proves to be a costly affair.

The most easily degradable plastics are soda and water bottles, medicine containers, milk and oil containers and so on. The most toughest ones are plastics containing polyvinyl chloride like plastic pipes, shower curtains, medical tubing, grocery bags, plastic used in Tupperware and so on. Plastic articles are numbered  according to its feasibility to be recycled with numbers ranging from 1,2 and so on known as the plastic identification code. Thus we as concerned citizens of a threat prone environment should make efforts to categorize the plastics accordingly from the collection of junk in our houses. Call the local recycling facilities in your area or search for the same on the internet. Remove miscellaneous attachments to your plastic products like a metal top for bottles or labels on the bottles that might not be of the same rank of viability to recycling with the plastics that you sort out. Crush plastic containers to save space in your recycling bins.

In some countries like Israel, recycling of films obtained from mixed municipal wastes  is successfully practiced resulting into its re-manufacture into useful household articles like buckets. Many clothing industries have also come up with applications of recycled plastics into creating a blend with certain fabrics and other materials to produce polyester fabrics that are used to make durable and strong products like jackets, coats, shoes, bags, hats and other accessories.

Feb 5, 2010 at 09:43 o\clock

e-waste recycling:

by: businessworld

Recycling can be described as the assembling, developing, promoting or buying of products which are prepared from waste products. Recycling process is majorly practiced in all parts of the world owing to the depletion of naturally occurring raw materials and increase in energy consumption, decreasing landfill space and ultimately its adverse effects caused on the environment. 

Recycling comes into picture for those commodities that are used extensively by almost everyone in the world. It is important to reduce the wastage and increase the re-usage of such items to maintain a good balance in the environment. One such commodity that has found increasing usage in the past decade is the computer. Computers are largely in demand in all walks of life, be it for personal use or for other businesses. Although, since these gadgets get outdated pretty soon and require replacing every now and then, it poses a problem in increasing the disposal of such electronic waste, also known as e-waste, into our landfills. e-waste recycling is a method of retaining operable parts and components from unusable electronic devices and having systems dismantled in a way that allows for safe extraction of certain constituents from the original to be reused in other products.

Computers contain toxic and carcinogenic chemicals such as lead oxide, mercury, nickel, zinc, cadmium, dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), chromium and radioactive isotopes which are extremely perilous to human health and the environment. Some of these materials like tin, silicon, iron, aluminum and a variety of plastics can be reused in the construction of new systems thus curbing the costs of manufacture of fresh raw materials. They may also contain valuable components like lead, copper and gold that can be retained successfully. Although this comes with a drawback. The lead that is contained in the lead glass of the cathode ray tube and the lead contained in the circuit boards in the form of lead-solders have the tendency to leach into groundwater or create air pollution through incineration. Another drawback is when retaining the valuable metals via incinerations and acid treatments, they may release and synthesize further toxic by products.

So the best possible way to reduce accumulation of e-wastes is to donate used computers to schools and non-profit organizations or you can send it to a recycling facility that recycles metals, glass and plastic like articles. The parts of the computers that can be recycled are the glass monitor, keyboard, CD Rom drive, plastic case, cathode ray tube, cables, copper in power cord, metals from the circuit board, printer cartridges and batteries. You can also take a step ahead while ordering new computers by cross checking if the manufacturers offer recycling services. Most major brands and companies offer some form of recycling. Certain manufactures also offer a free replacement service while purchasing a new computer of a specific brand. They take back the old computers, refurbish them and re-sell them in the market. There are also online auction sites like eBay where one can resell their computers for a reasonable price.

The only thing to be taken under consideration for secure recycling is that the private data on the hard drive is destroyed because we do not want to encourage illegal activities like identity thefts that can cause major businesses to lose more than just money.

Feb 4, 2010 at 06:30 o\clock

WESTERN UNION SCAM:

by: businessworld   Keywords: escrow, service, Western, Union

“Exiting offer! Mercedes Benz C-class for just rupees fifty thousand. Hurry, limited offer! Select your transaction method!” Please don't search for the location where you can get it. We are not gonna mention it, as it is simply impossible, as everyone knows, and this is an example for scam advertisement.

A Western Union scam is any scam that uses Western Union method of payment. If anyone sees an advertisement as the one above, you will be anxious in getting a Benz and you will straight away agree to send the money through a transfer service. Anyway the money will be sent, but you will not receive the C-class Benz. Unfortunately the money has been already picked up. It means that you've been a victim of online auction fraud. If you are lucky enough you will atleast receive prototype model of a Benz C-class.     

About western Union:

The Western Union money transfer service is the great way to sent money to the people you know and trust. And Western Union recommends not using western union money transfer service to pay for online auction purchases as they do not offer any types of purchase protections or escrow service. To make it simple, once the money is sent, there is no protection on it, and no way to get it back.

TIPS TO AVOID WESTERN UNION SCAM:

- Be cautious if the online seller will accept only one type of money transfer. Most legitimate sellers will accept more than one form of payment.

- Make sure that you check out any seller references or feedback before making a purchase. However, often this method won't work because the seller can himself create the feedback or reference and may be bogus.

- Western union money transfer is the 100% preferred payment method of scammers. Because the moment the scammer gets the MTCN number or the money transfer number he can get the money and disappear into cyberspace, leaving you with an empty box, damaged pride and a hole in your pocket. So even if sellers say that there paypal accounts are down, don't pay them through western union.

We take the issue of consumer fraud very seriously. We value the consumers who use our services and know they work hard for earning every single penny. When consumers loose money, we feel like we loose. So please report any abuse if found.