Why is Recycling important?
Facts in UK
Every household in UK produces about 1 tonne of rubbish annually.
Each year in the UK households throw away over 29.1 million tonnes of waste, that's the same weight as 4.85 million male African Elephants!!! so you see the need for us to recycle instead of burming & burying rubbish. Recycling saves natural materials
Recycling saves primary material e.g. wood, oil and coal. Annually, each person in Europe uses 50 tonnes of primary material extracted from the earth, not including air and water. In Europe, this equates to extraction of 20 billion tonnes of material from earth each year!!!!!!
Recycling saves energy Using recycled materials in the manufacturing process uses considerably less energy than that required for producing new products from raw materials.
Recycling reduces need for landfills Rubbish today, compared to pre-1960s rubbish, contains more products that don't break down when they're put into the ground. Packaging waste makes up about 1/4 of all rubbish put into the refuse bins.
The amount of rubbish we throw is increasing for a number of reasons: - new packaging materilas and technology are being developed
- lifestyle changes e.g. greater reliance on convenience/fast foods
- increasing affluence, leading to greater consumption of goods
- Increasing population.
We need to increase the ammount of rubbish that is recycled!!!!
Projects in Kenya 
Create Recycling centers in low-income neighbourhood : We aim to deliver a quality kerbside recycling scheme in lowide scheme with glass, plastics, paper, tins board, textiles an-income ghettos of Eastlands area of Nairobi. It is hoped to start the kerbsd kitchen waste.
Prevent useful resources from landfill: Provide the means to recycle surplus items from businesses inUK into education, giving the resources a new lease of life and assisting schools by supplementing the school budget. Usual types of resources available are:
- Office equipment - desks, chairs, cabinets,computers etc.
- Paper products - paper, cardboard, packaging, stationery, display materials, catalogues, brochures, folders, etc.
- Fabrics - roll ends of material, threads etc.
- Food operation equipment
- plastic containers,cups, plates, utensils,etc.
- Electrical components, mechanical components, etc.
- Plants, gardening
materials, tools, etc.
- Building materials,
tools, paints, models, etc.
Develop
creativity in Children of slums: Provide,
assist or support the provision of quality creative play and environmental
facilities for children and young people resident in Eastlands, to promote the
development of such children and young persons, in achieving their full
physical, intellectual, social and spiritual potential. All playground
equipment will be locally sources and constructed to ensure that benefits reach
the local communities. Promote
sports in slums: Collect unwanted
sports equipment such as bikes, boxing gloves etc. which will be made available
to those who need to use them. 
Environclean
Special Mini-targets: 2007 -2010
- Collect at least 600
tonnes of redundant equipment for potential reuse;
- Divert at least 1000
tonnes materials from landfill by: re-distributing redundant equipment for
re-use, recycling bottles and paper;
- Help 40 organisations
save money by buying low cost equipment;
- Help 4 neighboourhoods
with 10,000 residents to improve their recycling performance;
- Create 19 jobs in
deprived inner city areas.
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