A wasteful world, unit 2, Edexcel, geography
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- A Wasteful World!
- Waste recycling at a local level
- Re3 is a waste management partnership
- Cans
- They are baled at Biffa a waste management facility in South Hampton
- They are then transferred to a repossessing facility in Leicester.
- They are first split into steel and aluminium and then reused, being made into products such as cars or new cans
- They are baled at Biffa a waste management facility in South Hampton
- Paper & Card
- It is recycled in Maidenhead where it is sorted and baled
- It is then moved to the St Regis paper mill in Kent where it is turned into new packaging material
- It is recycled in Maidenhead where it is sorted and baled
- Plastics
- They are recycled by Baylis Recycling at their plant in Kenysham near Bristol
- The bottles are sorted into different types of plastics and products are made, e.g new plastic bottles
- They are recycled by Baylis Recycling at their plant in Kenysham near Bristol
- Glass
- Glass is reproduced in Yorkshire where it is washed and crushed and mixed with raw materials to make new glass containers
- Types of domestic waste
- Glass
- Cans
- Plastic
- Textile
- Food
- Paper
- Garden
- Types of waste in general
- Domestic & Industrial & Comercial
- Biodegradable & Non-biodegradable
- Hazardous & Non-hazardous
- Solid or Liquid
- Municipal
- Agriculture
- Germany waste disposal
- Landfill (domestic)
- 160 landfill sites
- Waste has to be treated before being put into landfill
- A treatment plant is sited in Luebeck, Germany
- The plant can treat 200,000 tonnes of domestic waste annually
- Incineration (domestic)
- There are 68 incinerators in Germany
- The plant at Darmstadt incinerates 212,000 tonnes of waste a year
- Other incinerators are mini-power plants which burn waste and provide energy to local homes & busnisesses
- Recycled waste (domestic)
- Germany recycles 60% of its waste
- All products that can be recycled have the 'Grune Punkt' emblem
- Nuclear waste
- Low-level waste is stored around the country at 50 locations
- High level nuclear waste is stored in Siberia and recycled in the UK and France
- Landfill (domestic)
- How energy is being wasted and solutions
- In industry
- Office devices that are left running
- It is estimated that £570 million is wasted on energy by industry in the UK every year
- The domestic situation
- Heat escaping through the roof and the walls
- Heat loss through single glazed windows
- Solutions
- Wind power
- Reduction of council tax
- Combined heat and power schemes
- In industry
- Waste recycling at a local level
- They are baled at Biffa a waste management facility in South Hampton
- They are then transferred to a repossessing facility in Leicester.
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