Yellow Recycling Bank

Plastic
Deposit:
- Big Bottles of water
- Bottles of cooking oil
- Packs of butter and margarine
- Bottles of juice - Plastic Bags
-Tubes of mustard and ketchup
- Bottles of vinegar
- Bottles of bleach
- Vases
- Bottles of shampoo
- Bottles of cooking oil
- Packs of detergent and hygiene products
- Containers of liquid and solid yogurts
- Plastic Films - Packs of chips and snacks
- Plastic Cups - Plastic lids - Bags of raffia (potatoes and onions)

Don’t deposit:
- Big bottles of fuel
- Buckets - Video Cassettes
- Pens - Hangers
- CD's and DVD's
- Cork stoppers
- Plastic cutlery

Metal
Deposit:
- Cans of drinks
- Metal tubes of toothpaste
- Cans of preserves
- Metal lids from glass bottles
- Aluminium Trays
- Cans of powder milk
- Empty Aerosol
- Metal caps from the champagne
- Cans of condensed milk and fruit

Don’t deposit:
- Appliances
- Batteries and battery
- Pots and pans
- Tools
- Metal cutlery

Packages of Cardboard for Beverages
Deposit:
- Packed milk
- Packed wine
- Packed juice
- Packed cream and tomato pulp

Curiosity
How to make recycled paper

Material:
• paper and water
• basins: flat and deep
• bucket
• wooden frame with cloth or nylon straight sieve
• hollow wooden frame (without screen)
• blender
Newspaper or felt
cloth
sponges or rags
line clothes and preachers
Press or two planks of wood
concave sieve (with "belly")
table

Procedure:
A - Preparing the pulp: Prick the paper and let it sauce for a day or a night in the flat basin, to soften. Put water in blender and paper, the proportion of three parts of water for a paper. Beat for ten seconds and disconnect. Wait a minute and beat again for another ten seconds. The pulp is ready.

B - Making the paper:
1. Pour the pulp into a large bowl, larger than the frame.
2. Place the frame on the hollow frame with canvas. Soak the frame vertically and throw it in the bottom of the basin.
3. Hold them still in a horizontal position, and slowly, so that the flesh is deposited on the screen. Hold the excess water drain into the basin and carefully remove the hollow frame.
4. Turn the frame with the flesh down on a paper or cloth.
5. Remove the excess water with a sponge.
6. Lift the frame, leaving the sheet of paper craft still wet on the paper.

C - Pressed the leaves For your paper craft sheets to dry faster and the interlacing of fibre stays stronger, make piles with the newspaper as follows:
• Stack three sheets of newspaper with paper craft. Merge with six sheets of paper or a piece of felt and put three more sheets of newspaper with paper. Continue on to form a stack of 12 sheets of paper craft.
• Place a pile of leaves in the press for 15 minutes. If it does not press, put the pile of leaves on the ground and push with a piece of wood.
• Hang the sheets of paper with the paper craft until the clothes line dry completely. Remove each sheet of paper of the newspaper and make a pile with them. Put this in the press stack for 8 hours or inside a heavy book for a week.



Source: http://www.compan.com.br/fazerpapel-html

Electron Point
The Amb3E launched the electron Point, a container where you can deposit the electrical waste and electronic equipment (WEEE) for recycling. This network of WEEE collection is available, initially in major shopping malls Sonae Sierra, an unprecedented initiative in Europe.
The modules were placed at various shopping centres and have the capacity for about 500 kg of small appliances, up to a diameter of 55 cm.

Garbage container

Deposit:
- Remains of food
- Used diapers
- CD's and DVD's
- Paper and card with fat
- Pots, pans, cutlery, etc ...
- Plates, glasses and cups
- Tapes - Windows and mirrors
- Hanger - Dirty paper kitchen towels
- Dirty napkins and paper handkerchiefs

Sources:
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Incineration

Incineration is a process by which waste, particularly the non-biodegradable materials, toxic or contaminants, are burned in a high oven, at a very high temperature (above 1000 º C),and being the final products of incineration of organic material, non –biodegradable, carbon dioxide, water vapour and heat energy. The garbage can be incinerated in a central specially constructed for this purpose or through the use of a high furnace of the cement and metallurgical industry of co-incineration.

Advantages of co-incineration:
- The cost of treatment per ton is about three times lower;
- The rate of destruction is higher than that of the incinerators, due to temperatures in the high furnaces of cement to about 1450 º C or more (about 2000 º C), near the area of flame, far higher than 1200 º C of the incinerator;
- Does not occur production of solid wastes, because of the ash from the combustion of waste being dissolved in the structure of the cement, while in the traditional process it would have to be deposited in a landfill;
- You do not need a complementary treatment of gases, nor is the production of liquid or sludge, due to the cement kilns it has a natural alkaline environment, resulting from the use of limestone as raw material, therefore natural gas washers, neutralizing its acidity.

Disadvantages of incineration in cement:
- The ovens do not a homogeneous distribution of temperature, presenting a hot tip near the flame and a cold end in the opposite side, not ensuring that it does not completely avoid the unwanted formation of toxic compounds such as dioxins;
- Emission of gases by cement kilns are below those required for the incineration plants;
- When the operations are stopped, the filters no longer work and release the gases without no treatment, by the chimney, since the filter sleeves, to retain the dust, are unable to retain more volatile gases, such as mercury;
- The study of the effects in terms of public health, of the incorporation of slag from the incineration in cement, are not fully conclusive, it is still unknown their total toxicity.

Advantages of waste incineration:
- The dramatic reduction of space / volume occupied by garbage;
- The elimination of bacterial and viral contamination;
- The decrease in the amount of land to be mobilized for the construction of landfills;
- Reduction of contamination of soil and water due to runoff resulting from accumulated waste;
- The profitable energy waste, since the heat resulting from their burning can be used for heating and production of electricity;
- The quick disposal of hazardous waste;
- The combustion gases are free of dust and neutralized, which does not happen in the open air dumps;
- In the case of co-incineration, the reduction of the amount of raw material and fuel that must be used for the production of cement.

While the burning is not, for now, a completely clean process it is at least the process most efficient in the elimination of certain hazardous wastes and reduction of the volume of garbage accumulated, and also to its energy recovery. However, it should not be considered the single and total solution for the disposal of waste and should be integrated into a comprehensive system of waste management, including the processes of sorting, recycling, composting and safe disposal of waste with (actual) health check.

Source:Diciopédia 2005

Vermicomposting
The vermicompost or compost performed almost exclusively by earthworms, emerges as the single option to recycle food waste and to obtain humus with excellent properties for fertilization of soil, without using synthetic fertilizers, preserving the environment and taking advantage to know it’s better to be alive.

Choose the location of the composter:
The vermicompostor (receptacle for worms) should be placed on a site for the development of earthworms.

Material for construction of vermicompostor
Box or plastic timber with lid and about 60 x 30 cm base and 25 cm high Drill 0.5-0.6 cm in diameter Land Gloves

Eco centre
The Eco centre is a wide park with large containers, used to store the materials in eco points (in big quantities) and wooden packages. Besides these, the Eco centre also stores rubble, branches of trees, old appliances, mattresses, pallets, boxes, furniture, computers, etc...

Wood
Deposit:
- Boxes of fruit and vegetable garden- Packages of wine - Wooden pallets - Packages of cheese
Don’t deposit:
- Packages containing cement, bitumen or tar.- Wooden containers coated with materials that are not easily removed.

Source: sociedadepontoverde