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By: Dawn Burden Bates
If your home is like mine, the holidays left you with a huge mess. Empty boxes and torn wrapping paper litter the floor after the kids excitedly open their gifts. It’s so tempting to gather it all up and through it in the outside garbage bin.
But this is a great opportunity to not only recycle, but to reuse. Almost all of the wrapping paper and boxes can be recycled, so consider keeping your contribution out of the landfill. And for the reuse possibilities…they are practically endless. I’m pretty sure that most of the ribbons I use have been used for several years. And many of the boxes that hold the gifts are great to use for packaging gifts next year. Do you realize that many stores now CHARGE you for a gift box? Sheesh, I’ll save mine for next year, thank you. Not to mention the gift bags. I LOVE getting my gifts in those pretty little bags. Especially since I know I will be using it for someone else’s gift somewhere down the road. Do you know how much those things cost? They are outrageous. No way would I throw them away. They are too valuable.
Now what are we to do with the tree? If you use an artificial tree, it’s a pretty easy decision. You fold it up and store it for next year. Simple. And if you are lucky enough to live in a warm environment and purchased a live tree including the root ball, you can get to work planting it in your yard to enjoy for years to come. But what about cut trees? Most communities offer some sort of Christmas tree recycling. The lucky ones have curbside pickup to recycle their trees. The rest of us need to decide what to do. What convinces me to haul the tree to the recycling facility is a couple of things.
I was willing to haul it home after I purchased it, so I can just as easily take it to be recycled.
Some communities use the old trees to shred and cover pathways and trails through parks. This helps to repair and reduce the damage we create as we enjoy our hikes.
Some communities turn the old trees into mulch and then provide it to the public for free! What a deal. Spring is just right around the corner, by the way.
So that pretty much covers what we can do to reduce our holiday effect on the environment. Now it’s a new year and we can begin thinking about getting a fresh start.
Some resolutions to consider:
- Resolve to begin recycling if you don’t already. You can start small. This site provides a wealth of information about getting your recycling efforts off the ground.
- If you already recycle, step it up a notch. If your curbside recycling service doesn’t accept a particular item (like glass or cardboard), resolve to begin taking that item to the drop off facility in your area.
- Resolve to purchase more products packaged with post consumer recycled materials. The higher the percentage listed on the package, the better.
- Resolve to purchase more items made from recycled materials. Paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, and many other paper products fall into this category.
- Resolve to purchase more items in bulk, thus reducing packaging waste.
- Resolve to create at least one creative craft using something you might otherwise throw away. This is fun, gets your creative juices flowing, can reduce stress, and is a g reat way to spend some quality time with your family.
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June 17 2009 | RJ & Makay Recycling Resolutions | Comments Off
Recycling Means Saving In More Ways Than One
By: Ben Franklin
This great big planet seems to be getting smaller and smaller. As more people call it home, the need to conserve, preserve and recycle is becoming more and more evident. While it’s not possible for one person to solve all the world’s problems when it comes to preservation and conservation, a single human can make a huge difference in a single community or an area.
Recycling is one of the best ways a person can make a difference in their community. The effort is relatively simple, generally supported by curbside pick up and can even be financially beneficial. Plus, it benefits the planet.
If you doubt the necessity to recycle, take a look at your weekly trash. Now consider what items could be pulled out and saved from a trip to a landfill. Cuts the number of bags down by a lot, doesn’t it?
If you’d like to get started recycling, but don’t know how, here are some ideas:
* Check with your local government authority to see if there are curbside recycling programs in place. If your government doesn’t have them, perhaps your trash handlers do. In many communities there are special, designated days for recycling of certain items. There’s not even a need to take the recyclables to a special collection site - it comes to you instead.
* If there is a recycling program in place, find out its rules and regulations. Depending on location, some items may be accepted and others may not. There may even be special bags or bins necessary to make sure the pick up program can easily identify what’s meant to be recycled and what’s meant for the landfill.
* If you don’t have a recycling program, check with a recycling company. These do exist and they handle everything from cardboard to aluminum and copper and more.
In general, the following items are accepted by recycling programs. Keep in mind though some of these items can net you cash if you turn them into a company rather than put them through a curbside service. In some cases, a lot of money.
* Glass. Many types of glass can be recycled. This will oftentimes have to be rinsed out. Check with your local program for information on types accepted and prep steps necessary.
* Aluminum. This is one that can net you money. Check for local regulations on its recycling, but keep in mind if you go through a lot of cans, you could be throwing money away if you don’t recycle, not to mention wasting landfill space.
* Copper wires. Electricians often come into contact with this. When stripped of its covering, this can net some serious cash at a recycling place.
* Newspapers. These are great for recycling. There’s no need to throw them away. Newspapers can be worth money for those who recycling them, too. In fact, many youth organizations do newspaper drives to make themselves some extra cash. Rather than selling a product, they collect your junk for their fundraising.
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How Recycling Offers Cash Back
By Tom Tessin
One of the best ways to help our economy, our environment, and get cash back is by recycling. Recycling is not only a nationwide thing in America but it is being done world-wide. You would be amazed at all the things that you can recycle and get cash back. One of the popular items is plastics many bottles and containers are used to make carpets and the recycling centers are more than glad to pay you so much per plastic container. Along with that program companies who use cans to bottle soft drinks, juices and other liquids pay the consumer cash back for the return of the containers.
Since many of us are a computer user that means we need to purchase ink cartridges and the ink cartridge companies are willing to pay you to bring back your empties. Companies that sell car batteries are willing to give the consumer a core cash back fee as the manufacturer can reuse in order to create new batteries. These items are all harmful to the eco system if left in landfills. It is wise to utilize the cash back system in order to put money in your pocket but better yet to help our eco system. We only have one place to live and that is earth so we need to take care of it by using recycling we can do just that.
There are other places that offer cash back like when you buy a lot of product and need to take a wood pallet you will receive cash back for the return of the pallet. Insurance companies are willing to give you a big discount on your premium if you pay your bill and shop on-line so that they do not have to use paper. We need to save our trees and by going paperless we are doing just that. It is important that you think of the many different ways that you can get cash back by recycling or cut down on the cost of your bills by going paperless and shopping on line. The Holidays is a great time to get cash back by shopping on-line and going paperless. Many merchants offer you great bargains and cash rebates if you shop on the internet with them. I like to think of it as “go green”, “think green”, and “get green.” When you “go green” you are shopping paperless, “thinking green” you are saving in as many places as possible and of course “get green” means you are getting paid for recycling.
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June 14 2009 | RJ & Makay Cash Back Offers | Comments Off
The Benefits of Recycling
By Michael Russell
Recycling is a priority in the United States. In fact, the United States recycles more than 24 percent of its waste. This is the highest percentage in the industrialized world. This is only appropriate considering the United States also produces the most amount of waste in the industrialized world. Recycling can bring out about economic and environmental benefits.
The recycling industry has made a vital contribution to job creation and economic development in the United States. In 2000, the recycling industry was responsible for more than 1.1 million jobs and a yearly payroll of $37 billion. For every 10,000 tons of waste that is recycled, 36 new jobs are created. If you were to incinerate the 10,000 tons of waste instead, only one job would be created. In addition, for every employee there is collecting items that can be recycled, there are 26 employees that turn these items into new products. There are as many employees in the recycling industry as there are in the automobile and truck manufacturing industry. Also recycling industry employees make more money than employees in other industries.
Recycling helps prevent global climate changes by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions can result from the manufacturing, use and disposal of products. Greenhouse gas emissions are a part of nature and they help create climates that sustain life on earth. If greenhouse gas emissions reach dangerous concentration levels, then you might see rising global temperatures, sea level changes and other climate changes. Recycling can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the following ways:
Manufacturing paper, plastics, glass and metal from recycled materials requires less energy than manufacturing these products from virgin materials because the recycled materials have already been processed. Also if you were to use virgin materials, you would have to spend additional energy extracting and transporting the virgin materials. For example, recycling aluminum cans saves 95 percent of the energy required to make new aluminum from virgin materials. Recycling steel and plastics would require 60 percent and 70 percent less energy, respectively, than making these products from raw materials. Recycling nearly any material will require less energy than producing the material from virgin materials. In 2005, recycling saved over 900 trillion BTUs, which is the same amount of energy used in 9 million households annually. This energy conservation results in less fossil fuels being burned. This means that less carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, is released into the atmosphere. If 6 tons of glass and one ton of aluminum were recycled, then 1 ton and 13 tons of carbon dioxide, respectively, would not be released into the atmosphere.
Recycling also keeps materials out of landfills. This is important because materials in landfills can decompose and release methane gas. Methane gas is a greenhouse gas that is 20 to 30 times more dangerous to the environment than carbon dioxide. Municipal solid waste landfills are responsible for 34 percent of methane gas emissions attributed to Americans.
Waste combustion from incinerators can release greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. Recycling can reduce these emissions by keeping materials out of incinerators. In 2003, recycling kept 72 million tons of material from incinerators and landfills.
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21st Century Recycling - Getting to Less Waste
Author: Beverly Clarke
RECYCLING ALL TYPES OF PAPER
Let’s assume that you don’t print out the North American average of thirty plus pages per day or buy the morning newspaper or even buy highly prepackaged goods at the grocery store, you could be astonished at just how much paper waste you render in a given twelvemonth period. Recycling paper results in monumental energy, fresh water, carbon dioxide and natural resource savings - as much as seventy-five percent in many cases.
Paper also happens to be one of the most recyclable items. Clean office paper can now be easily separated from its inks and toners, with the resulting pulp being employed in a broad assortment of products, including new paper that’s nearly indistinguishable from the old. More often, however, paper is combined together with news print and additional kinds of subordinate grade paper products to produce a lower-grade or “down-cycled” type of paper product. You will be able to achieve a big benefit by recycling what paper you are able to and composting the balance as add-ons of “brown matter” that keeps the high nitrogen kitchen waste adequately provided with carbon.
REDUCING THE WASTE MATERIAL YOU BUY
The most crucial component of the recycling power structure is the reduction of waste as a number one priority. This is most frequently managed by devoting rigorous care to the things you buy. You can establish a campaign to buy items with minimal packaging. While such decisiveness often times requires you to make a primal shifting in what motivates your buying
urge, such a thoughtful carry through is frequently attained when monetary resources are low. Let packaging comprise part of your buying decisions even as much as what’s inside. There’s just about always a low-packaging item. Select packaging that can be composted at home (like paper or twine) or recycled as often as feasible over plastics that will persist for hundreds of years.
Determining just how to make more of the items you utilize in your day-to-day life for yourself makes an enormous impact on how much rubbish for which you will even need to project. Those who produce and prepare their own food, composting the leftovers and returning them back to the soil as compost, have little (if no) trash to be concerned about.
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Recycling Plastic
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By Ross Bainbridge
A large number of plastic containers and bags are used on a daily basis. Plastic waste is one of the biggest causes for increased water and soil pollution. Plastic recycling offers one of the best solutions to the increased plastic waste in the environment. Plastic recycling is the process of breaking down used scrap and waste plastics to recover usable material for the manufacturing industry. Plastic comprises of a large number of resins and complex chemical structures that are melted down to create new fibers.
Plastic recycling is a complex procedure. Plastic recycling industries can face a large number of unique challenges. One of the key principles to be followed while recycling plastic is that different types of plastics cannot be mixed before recycling. Plastics of different polymer structures and resin composition are identified by using standard codes on the basis of their melting and crushing capacity. Plastic materials identified under a particular code can be mixed and recycled with other plastics of the same code. Plastic materials consist of a few dyes, fillers, and additives, which are not easily recyclable.
The obstacles of recycling plastic can be overcome by using an elaborate monomer recycling process wherein the polymer undergoes an inverse polymer reaction of what was used to manufacture it. The end product of this procedure is a mix of chemicals that form the original polymer, which is further purified and synthesized to form a new polymer of the same type. Another solution to the problem is the use of a thermal de-polymerization process, which involves conversion of assorted polymers into petroleum. The procedure accepts the mixing of any type of polymer.
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May 25 2009 | RJ & Makay Recycling Plastic | Comments Off
RJ & Makay® is a leading human capital recruiting and consulting firm exclusively servicing the financial sector. About half of the financial firms in the Fortune Top 100 utilize RJ & Makay. We have more than 100 financial industry recruiting specialists providing “human capital for the capital markets.”
Our philosophy in practice is founded on unwavering integrity; built upon our extensive expertise in financial services; secured by our total commitment to confidentiality; and finally, propelled forward by our relentless pursuit to be the best at what we do.
Through the thousands of relationships we have had the privilege to build over the years we are reminded daily that our success has been perpetuated by our fundamental principle of treating each financial professional as if they were our only client. This business, as so many others, is built around relationships. We not only understand this we have embraced this philosophy for years. Many of the people we have placed have come after years of developing and cultivating trusting relationships.
We’re honored that each month hundreds of professionals choose us to represent them to the best firms in the financial services industry.
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RJ & Makay: ‘Wells Fargo & Wachovia: This Isn’t Just A Shotgun Wedding, It’s Polygamy’
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DENVER, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Wachovia (WB) was forced into a shotgun
wedding with Citigroup (C) and then before the honeymoon started reneged
for another forced marriage with Wells Fargo (WFC)
"This isn't just a shotgun wedding between Wachovia and Wells Fargo.
It's a marriage of three firms at least. Its corporate polygamy," says RJ &
Makay CEO Darin Manis. "You have a marriage of Wachovia and all its parts,
AG Edwards and Wells Fargo. No one likes a shotgun wedding. A shotgun
polygamous wedding is even worse."
"Wachovia is a culmination of many previous takeovers," says Manis,
"First Union, Evergreen, Prudential, Golden West and AG Edwards all fly
under the Wachovia banner -- now make that riding the Wells Fargo horse
carriage."
"A year and a half after the Wachovia/AG Edwards marriage they still
haven't been able to merge their platforms or technology. The two still
aren't on the same compensation grid. A new and revised combined grid was
expected in the fourth quarter," adds Manis.
"It's been a year now and Wachovia and AG Edwards are still not on the
same page. Now throw Wells Fargo in the mix. This won't take just a couple
of years. This is going to take many years, perhaps nearly a decade before
these three truly become one," says Manis.
Wachovia's divisions could prove to be as difficult and dangerous as
Medusa. Eight arms at least, each with their own issues. Wachovia
Securities (brokerage arm), FiNet (independent arm), Investment Services
Group (banking brokerage arm), the Private Bank arm the Investment Bank arm
(which Wells is getting rid of), the bank branch arm, Evergreen Investments
and AG Edwards.
AG Edwards advisors received a retention package (as well as Wachovia
advisors to a lesser degree) when Wachovia bought them. Questions are being
raised if Wells Fargo will offer an additional retention deal and if so how
much. "I don't believe Wells will offer any meaningful retention package if
they offer one at all. The advisors are already under a retention deal that
is only about a year old," says Manis.
Manis adds, "The only position of strength Wachovia had going into this
deal with Wells Fargo was that Citi came to their rescue, keeping them out
of bankruptcy. I don't expect they will be receiving anything more than a
nominal token retention deal. I wouldn't be shocked if they didn't get one
at all."
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RJ & Makay is a financial recruiting firm exclusively servicing the
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utilize RJ & Makay for various recruiting and consulting services. For more
information visit http://www.rjandmakay.com.
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RJ & Makay’s New Video: ‘Non-First-Quartile’ Financial Advisors Getting Some ‘Love’
DENVER, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ — This is the most challenging market most Financial Advisors have ever seen. They’ve seen their client’s assets take a hit — their deferred comp plummet, the reputations of their firm and industry dragged through the mud, and have witnessed failures and mergers which would have been unimaginable even a year ago; from Merrill Lynch and Bank of America (BAC), to Morgan Stanley (MS) and Smith Barney (C). Now there are even rumors about UBS (UBS) and Wachovia brokerage combining.
To add insult to injury many firms are either neglecting or putting the squeeze on the bottom half of the industry broker producers, through nominal or no retention packages, transition packages that pale in comparison to those the top producers get, annual cuts in commission payouts, or being targeted for layoffs.
If you’re a third or fourth quartile advisor who feels your clients and your family would be better off in a different situation what are your options?
“Our message is that there are compelling choices and opportunities,” says financial recruiting firm RJ & Makay CEO Darin Manis. “Just because your current firm doesn’t love you doesn’t mean another firm wouldn’t love to have you,” says Manis.
RJ & Makay just released an entertaining two-minute video about alternative opportunities. http://www.rjandmakay.com/featured-video It is the third video in a series targeting FAs. Previous videos have received more than 15,000 views.
“We’ve never seen such a strong interest in alternative opportunities. We’re setting hundreds of monthly interviews with advisors looking at independents, hybrid models, banking brokerage and investment management options,” says Manis.
“There will always be an interest in apples-to-apples moves like a wirehouse-to-wirehouse. However, alternative options which have either warm leads, higher payouts, or different structures and cultures are red hot right now with FAs.”
Advisors making low to mid 20’s on their payout are seriously evaluating what they are getting for the 80% they are giving up.
“If you can go from a net income of $75,000 to $180,000 without adding a single additional client you just have to investigate the opportunity. $75K to $180K is not just a different tax bracket, it’s an entirely different lifestyle,” says Manis.
“When FAs hear they can double or triple their income and get around a 25-50% transition package they raise their eyebrows,” says Manis.
It looks as if non-first quartile brokers are loved after all. It just may not be coming from their current firm.
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By Nina K
Recycling
During the 1960s and ’70s it was thought that emissions from factory chimneys and sewage pipes constituted the biggest environmental problem. But since then, due to new, worldwide “Eco-laws”, these discharges have decreased considerably. Instead, the focus has switched to the environmental problems associated with the goods that are produced and consumed in modern society. Many of the most environmentally damaging substances are currently being supplied through glass bottles, newspapers, plastic bags, coke cans, cardboard boxes and sweet wrappers just to mention a few.
To tell you what recycling is and what the word actually embodies may seem strange to you. I am sure all of you think you know exactly what it entails. But in theory recycling involves the separation and collection of materials for processing and re-manufacturing old products into new products, and the use of these new products, completing the cycle.
Glass is one of the most common man-made materials. It is made from sand, limestone and sodium carbonate and silica. The ingredients are heated to a high temperature in a furnace until they melt together. The molten glass from the furnace cools to form sheets, or may be moulded to make objects. Actually glass is completely recyclable and making products from recycled glass rather than starting from scratch saves energy resources. Recycled glass is made into new beverage bottles, food jars, insulation and other construction materials. Usually, clear glass containers are recycled into new clear glass products, while coloured glass containers are recycled into new coloured glass products.
In fact, the recycling of glass as well other products, such as aluminum and steel cans, cardboard, car tyres, newspapers and certain plastics is a growing industry in most of the world today. In South Africa however, we don’t have a very high level of recycling. There aren’t enough people who take an active interest in the environment and try to do their bit in preserving nature, by for example, taking used bottles, aluminum cans or even leaves and other garden refuse to recycling sites. This is probably due to a lot of reasons. The first and foremost being that, in South Africa, we don’t have many recycling centres and, lets face it, how many of us really sort our rubbish before throwing it in the rubbish bin?
Since it is now these products, and no longer industrial emissions, that accounts for most of the environmentally harmful substances being discharged in nature the conditions for environmental efforts have fundamentally changed. As the “release sites” or the polluters, have become so numerous, a totally new system for controlling and handling environmentally harmful wastes is needed.
One way could be to transfer the responsibility for this to the producer of goods, according to the established principle “the polluter pays.”
However, I found this principle not be all that efficient in practise. To find out what is actually being done at the industrial level, I spoke with William Footman, one of the regional managers of Nampak, which is one of South Africa’s 2 glass manufacturers. He told me that the reason we don’t have a very developed glass recycling programme in this country, is due to the fact that we only have two factories where glass can be recycled back into beverage bottles. And as it is far too expensive for the companies to transport old bottles back to their factories for recycling, they would rather produce new, rather than re-use the old glass.
But, producers who put a product on the market should, quite simply, be responsible for taking back as much as is sold. What is important for environmental policy is the creation of a system in which each producer assumes his responsibility. But should all the responsibility lie on the producers? Every consumer who buys these products should make an asserted effort to help keep our planet clean.
I searched the Internet to find out exactly how poorly we as South Africans compare to the rest of the world in recycling. The country that has been in the forefront of recycling, particularly for household waste, is Sweden. Swedes have to carefully recycle and separate their own rubbish for the refuse collectors on a daily basis. Even in the middle of their very cold winters, in raging snowstorms, the Swedish people go to the recycling stations with their household trash to perform the daily ritual of separating cardboard from plastics and glass from biological waste.
Actually nearly all 1st world countries and many developing countries have developing or already highly developed recycling programmes, and South Africa desperately needs to jump on the ‘recycling wagon’. A step in the right direction could be to build recycling plants all over the country. Every town should set up a sufficient number of collection stations and every household should share the responsibility and sort their rubbish to ensure that batteries and electrical appliances are not thrown in landfills, that glass, aluminium cans and plastic bags don’t clutter the country-side. Working together with the producers, consumers should send items back to factories, to be recycled and thereby reused.
The process of recycling, for example paper, entails the conversion of waste paper to various types of finer grades of paper. First, careful sorting is required so that items such as plastic wrapping, paper clips and staples can be removed. Waste paper is divided into categories such as newsprint; typing and computer paper; and magazines, which have shiny paper and coloured inks and need special treatment. Next, the ink must be removed. This is done by soaking the paper and breaking it up into small pieces in giant washers, then treating it with chemicals that loosen the ink so that it can be rinsed away. Sometimes more than one such chemical must be used because many types of ink must be removed. Finally, the wet, shredded waste paper is blended with other materials according to the type of end product that is desired. Old pieces of cloth, which are used to produce the finest, most expensive grades of paper, may be mixed in. Wood pulp and other forms of cellulose such as straw may also be added in varying proportions. If white paper or paper for greeting cards or stationery is to be produced, bleach may also be added to lighten it; if newsprint is to be produced, a mixture of red and blue dyes is added to reduce the greyness of the final product. Chemical preservatives are also added at this point.
At this time, the fully treated material is a sort of liquid sludge that is ready to be made into paper. In most papermaking operations, the sludge passes through a machine called a beater, which is essentially a very heavy roller that presses the fibres in the sludge together and squeezes out the water. The paper is formed and held together by the natural interlocking of the long cellulose or cloth fibres as they are pressed and dried. No glue is used in the process and in fact, the natural glue in wood is removed chemically before the paper is made.
A refining machine brushes the roll of sludge to smooth out irregularities. The papermaking machine presses the sludge into thin slices, which are then further dried by pressing or by being placed in furnaces. Finally, the paper is polished or chemically treated to give it the proper finish and lastly packaged and sent to customers.
The papermaking process itself is pretty much the same whether one uses virgin materials, recycled materials, or a mixture of the two. The difference is in the preparation of the sludge. Recycled material requires careful sorting. This in turn means that the paper mills must have a place to store waste paper and the staff to sort it, as well as a means of disposing of waste paper that cannot be used. Removing ink from waste paper also requires special chemicals, equipment, and equipment operators. As a result, some paper mills are not set up to use any recycled materials. That’s why the forests are getting smaller and smaller.
Also, not all paper products can be made with recycled paper. Brown grocery bags, for example, can be recycled into other types of paper, but they must be made, at least partially, out of virgin materials because only virgin materials have the long unbroken fibres that give the bags their necessary strength. Unlike glass bottles and aluminum cans, which can be recycled an infinite number of times, paper cannot be recycled indefinitely. Each time it is recycled, its quality degrades slightly because the fibres become more and more broken. At some point recycled paper has to be mixed in with virgin material, and eventually after repeated uses, it ends up in a landfill or and incinerator.
Obviously as recycling plants and collection sites have to be set up all over the country and for all the various types of materials we use in every day life, it is going to be a very expensive process to start, but it is vital that the wheels are set in motion before it is too late! In turn this will lead to many new jobs opening up for unskilled as well as skilled people in South Africa helping to keep our country cleaner as well as decreasing unemployment and thereby promoting the economy.
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