National Recycling Week

National Recycling Week

October 4th - 10th

Your Shopping List

Think Before You Buy!

Ideas for Today and Tomorrow

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1. Choose Loose!

Buy loose items of fruit and vegetables to reduce the amount of packaging waste you take home with you!

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2. Be Observant

Look out for goods packaged in recycled materials

Look for goods with the green dot.

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3. Buy Less Buy goods for which refills can be

bought.

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4. Think Long Term Try to avoid buying disposable items

e.g. Buy razors with replaceable blades rather than disposable razors.

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5. Recycling Facilities Most shopping centres have bring

banks close by. Bring your recyclables with you when you go shopping

Choose products in packaging which can be recycled!

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6. Carrying your shopping home

Bring an old plastic bag with you when you go shopping.

Choose to use a ‘bag for life’. Use cardboard boxes, normally left at

the back of the supermarket, to carry your shopping home

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7. Less is More Avoid buying individually

wrapped portions where possible

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8. Action Use your consumer power

Recycling

Why We

Should Do It

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In 2001 the average person in Ireland generated 0.7 tonnes of municipal waste….10 times our body weight!

FACT:

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And……..

……Without adopting any waste prevention measures, that 0.7 tonnes per person will increase to 2 tonnes by 2015

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So…. Why Not…

Reduce

Reuse

Recycle

WHY RECYCLE?

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Why Recycle? Producing recycled paper involves

between 28-70% less energy consumption than virgin paper and uses less water

For every tonne of paper used for recycling 17 trees are spared, 7000 gallons of water are saved, 4200 kWh less electricity is used.

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Why Recycle?

Enough energy is saved by recycling one aluminium can to light a 100 watt light bulb for 20 hours.

Recycle Into What?

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Recycle into What?

Steel cans containing anything from baked beans to pet food are used to make new cars and bridges

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Recycle Into What? Plastic bags can be recycled into

garden furniture, decking and fencing.

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Recycle Into What? Recycled paper can become new

newspapers and magazines, as well as novel things such as decorative paving

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Recycle Into What? A vending cup can be made into a

pencil or pen.

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Recycle Into What? 25 plastic drink bottles can be used to

make 1 fleece jacket.

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Recycling on Campus There are skips for paper and

cardboard at the back of most buildings

Battery banks in Science, Engineering and NOVA

Glass Bring Banks at the back of the Pay and Display Car Park

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Recycling on Campus

Aluminium and Plastic Bring Banks in front of Restaurant and Sports Centre. Also in the Quinn School of Business, NOVA UCD, Student Centre, Vets College and Conway Institute

Boxes for Toner cartridges and Mobile Phones in most buildings

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Your Task

Make it Recycling Week EVERY Week