Zero Waste is a philosophy and a design principle for the 21st Century. It inclu
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Zero Waste is a philosophy and a design principle for the 21st Century. It includes 'recycling' but goes beyond recycling by taking a 'whole system' approach to the vast flow of resources and waste through human society. Zero Waste maximizes recycling, minimizes waste, reduces consumption and ensures that products are made to be reused, repaired or recycled back into nature or the marketplace. NYC Man Wearing 30 Days Worth of Garbage Write a 2-page paper on your idea of zero waste and on specific steps that you can take to reduce the amount of waste produced by your household. Include your nameExplanation / Answer
Idea of Zero waste
- First is aluminium cans recycled to aluminium cans.
- 2nd is the steel cans
- 3rd is spraying cans
- 4th is the metal caps -The metal items are recycled and sold as metals. 48 tonnes of total metals sold in 2014 by the total population of Kamikatsu which was 1700.
- 5th is clear glass bottles
- 6th is white glass bottles which is melted
- 7th is the big bottle like the sake bottles which is washed and reused.
- 8th is other color bottles are separated as per colors and they are melted and recycled.
- 9th includes glass caps or mirrors or ceramics or window glasses (not the bottles but the rest) Its crushed and downcycled and used in construction material. This process comes with a cost so the Town governing organization has to pay for this as using new material is cheap compared to reprocess expense.
- 10th Batteries - It is one of the most expensive and hazardous recycling materials. Metal is again used and the chemical is taken out. Solution is to use rechargeable batteries
- 11th, 12th and 13th are around the Light bulbs category- They separate the metal part so they are not together with glass. Use high quality LED instead and they consume less electricity compared to the regular light bulbs. Includes tube-light.
- 14th is broken light bulbs.
- 15th is the clean white plastic trays. other colors come in a different category. They are recycled. Better not to buy products coming in plastic packaging. Use your own box, for buying veggies, breads, meats.
- 16th is old clothing and curtains Kamikatsu has its Kurukuru craft center and Kurukuru shops where the fabric and accessories are upcycled to new products. So basically people in Kamikatsu can bring in whatever they don't use anymore to the shop and then leave it there. Then whoever comes to the shop can take it for free if you want it. You have to mention the kilogram weight of clothes taken or given, so that we know what is the quantity of waste created in city.
- 17th is paper packs for milk, juices and alcohol in Japan. Recycled as paper packs, wash it before giving at center.
- 18th Brown card board - recycled as card board and gets sold.
- 19th is newspaper - recycled and sold back as paper for newspaper.
- 20th magazines and small piece of paper - As magazine pages are glued together, they cant be recycled to same quality material but it is downcycled as a lower quality paper.
- 21st is wooden chopsticks. Some of the wooden chopsticks are brought into the paper companies to be made into paper from the wood. Rest is used as fire source.
- 22nd is PET plastic bottles. It cost a lot of energy for the recycling and the plastic can be only recycled once it's cleaned. Alternative is biodegradable plastic. It can be composted though it takes longer than other organic material but atleast is not a hazard.
- 23rd is The cap of the plastic bottles. It is recycled.
- 24th is lighter. They are reusable - metal part can be sold & the plastic one is reused.
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