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Bring your kids and your weekly bag of junk and we will give you a free kid's craft kit in return. The idea is to make our kids more aware of what we throw away, and to show them that not everything is junk and to think before tossing "junk" in the bin.
We also run awareness workshops to help teach you, your family, friends and colleagues how to help our planet and to reduce our impact on the environment. We do not limit our efforts to the home, but to the office as well.
We are looking for literally anything! If it does not rot, we are interested, if you are unsure just pop us a line and we will help you out.
Our only condition is it must be clean / or washed before you bring it.

Let your children have fun while learning the benifits of recycling!

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Economic Benefits of Recycling

First, I’m going to detail a few of the economic benefits and will follow this up with some environmental benefits (just for all the “greenies” out there).

Efficient recycling programs cost less to operate than waste removal services, landfilling and incineration.
Recycling assists in saving money. Families can spend time together making things out of “waste”, thus saving on the pocket and creating some “together” time.
Recycling programs within communities are incredibly cost-effective. Some examples would be maximizing recycling rates, implementing “pay-as-you-throw” programs and providing incentives in waste management programs which would encourage disposal companies to recycle more and dispose of less.
Recycling creates jobs and income for thousands of people. In fact, four jobs are created in recycling for every one created in the waste disposal industry.
Public sector investment in local recycling programs assists greatly in creating jobs within the private sector. For every job collecting recyclables, over twenty are created in processing and remanufacturing the materials.
Many large companies worldwide have saved millions by voluntarily running recycling programs. Would these guys do it if it didn’t make economic sense?

Environmental Benefits and Facts

The list below has been supplied by an organization called The National Recycling Coalition

Internationally, recycling diverted almost 70 million tons of material away from landfills and incinerators in 2000 compared with 34 million tons in 1990.
Every ton of paper recycled saves the life of 17 trees.
By recycling one glass bottle, enough energy is saved to power one light bulb for four hours. Recycling aluminium saves 95% of the energy needed to make it from raw materials, plastics 70%, steel 60%, newspaper and glass 40%.
Recycling creates a reduction in eighteen categories of air and water pollutants. Hence cleaner air and fresher water.
Recycling saves energy. There is thus a lesser reliance on foreign oil.
A national recycling rate of 30% would reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the degree that it would be like removing over a million vehicles from the road.
Recycling makes a difference. On one US College campus alone, in one year the equivalent of 33913 trees were saved and the need for 636 tons of iron ore, coal and limestone was alleviated.
Wars over natural resources, including timber and minerals, have killed or displaced over 20 million people worldwide and almost 100 billion rand is being raised for warlords and repressive governments in the process. Recycling would diminish the demand for these materials.
Recycling reduces habitat destruction, loss of biodiversity and soil erosion connected with logging and mining. Tree farms and reclaimed mines are not ecologically equivalent to natural forests and ecosystems.

So, as you can see, recycling makes sense from both an economic and environmental perspective, without even going into the fun that can be had by utilizing recycled goods in a creative manner. In the coming weeks I intend to focus more on this aspect, along with providing indications of which household “junk” is recyclable, where it can be recycled and what you could end up saving and gaining by practising it.

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