recycle

1. Recycling refers to the collection and reuse   of waste materials such as empty beverage   containers.

2. The materials from which the items are  made can be reprocessed into new products.  Material for recycling may be collected  separately from general waste using  dedicated bins and collection vehicles, or   sorted directly from mixed waste streams.

3.The most common consumer products recycled include aluminum such as beverage cans, coppersuch as wire, steel food and aerosol cans, old steel furnishings or equipment , polyethylene andPET bottles, glass bottles and jars, paperboard cartons, newspapers, magazines and light paper, and corrugated fiberboard boxes.

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rainwater reuse

Rainwater harvesting is the accumulating and storing, of rainwater for reuse, before it reaches the aquifer. It has been used to provide drinking water, water for livestock, water for irrigation, as well as other typical uses given to water.

Rainwater collected from the roofs of houses, tents and local institutions, can make an important contribution to the availability of drinking water.
Water collected from the ground, sometimes from areas which are especially prepared for this purpose, is called .
Stormwater harvesting



In some cases, rainwater may be the only available, or economical, water source. Rainwater harvesting systems can be simple to construct from inexpensive local materials, and are potentially successful in most habitablelocations.

 Roof rainwater can be of good quality and may not require treatment before consumption.
 Although some rooftop materials may produce rainwater that is harmful to human health, it can be useful in flushing toilets, washing clothes, watering the garden and washing cars; these uses alone halve the amount of water used by a typical home.

 Household rainfall catchment systems are appropriate in areas with an average rainfall greater than 200 mm (7.9 in) per year, and no other accessible water sources (Skinner and Cotton, 1992). Overflow from rainwater harvesting tank systems can be used to refill aquifers  in a process called groundwater recharge, though this is a related process, it must not be confused with Rainwater harvesting.

There are a number of types of systems to harvest rainwater ranging from very simple to the complex industrial systems. The rate at which water can be collected from either system is dependent on the plan area of the system, its efficiency, and the intensity of rainfall (i.e. annual precipitation (mm per annum) x square meter of catchment area = litres per annum yield) ... a 200 square meter roof catchment catching 1,000mm PA yields 200 kLPA

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plastic

plastic means: material which contains as an essential ingredient a high polymer and which at some stage in its processing into finished productus can be  shaped by flow

Plastic waste is recycled in India in an “unorganized” way. 60% of the plastic-waste

collected and segregated gets recycled back into materials for further processing into consumer

Some of the silent features Rules about plastic are:-

• Use of plastic materials in sachets for storing, packing or selling gutkha, 

   tobacco and pan masala has been banned.

• discarded PVC chappals/shoes in varied colors and grades of plastics material.
• discarded PVC mineral water bottles/PET mineral water and liquor bottles and PS icecream/cold drink cups/disposable catering plates and grays and expanded PS and PE  foam packagings
• foodstuffs will not be allowed to be packed in recycled  plastics or ompostable plastics. 
• Recycled carry bags shall conform to specific BIS standards. 
• Plastic carry bags shall either be white or only with those pigments and colourants which are in conformity with the bar prescribed by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).This shall apply expressly for pigments and colourants to be used in plastic  products which come in contact with foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals and drinking water.
• Plastic carry bags shall not be less than 40 microns in thickness. Under the earlier       Rules, the minimum thickness was 20 microns. Several State Governments in the meanwhile, had stipulated varying minimum thickness. It is now expected that 40 microns norms will become the uniform standard to be followed across the country.
• The minimum size (of 8x12 inches) for the plastic carry bags prescribed under the earlier Rules has been dispensed with. 
• Carry bags can be made from compostable plastics provided they conform to BIS standards.

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