Have you ever recycled? It's when garbage is converted into new materials.
I have, we have a recycling bin and I always put cardboard in it! What kind of materials do they make out of it?
In an ideal world, everything would be recycled! Recycled paper would become new paper, for instance.
That would be nice if everyone recycled. Has recycling been going on for a long time?
Well composting, such as reusing food for gardening, is considered recycling. So I would say it has been going on for a long time!
Oh goodness, I never knew that. Does it help the flower grow?
Compost is decomposed organic matter which turns into fertilizer for plants
What a great natural way to fertilize plants!
" waste hierarchy. Thus, recycling aims at environmental sustainability by substituting raw material inputs into and redirecting waste outputs out of the economic system.
There are some ISO standards related to recycling such as ISO 15270:2008 for plastics waste and ISO 14001:2015 for environmental management control of recycling practice.
"Recyclable materials" include many kinds of glass, paper, cardboard, metal, plastic, tires, textiles, batteries, and electronics. The composting or other reuse of biodegradable waste—such as food or garden waste—is also
a form of recycling. Materials to be recycled are either delivered to a household recycling center or picked up from curbside bins, then sorted, cleaned, and reprocessed into new materials destined for manufacturing new products.
In the strictest sense, recycling of a material would produce a fresh supply of the same material—for example, used office paper would be converted into new office paper or used polystyrene foam into new polystyrene. This is accomplished when recycling certain types of materials, such as metal cans, which can become a