Recycling

1. Each year, every person in Auckland wastes around 160 kg of rubbish each year.
2. Combine all Auckland homes and businesses into one big chunk it will weigh out almost 1.2 million tonnes of waste a every year.
3. Recyclable materials include many kinds of glass, paper, metal, plastic, textiles, and electronics. Although similar in effect, the composting or other reuse of biodegradable waste—such as food or garden waste—is not typically considered recycling.
4. The Auckland council wants to improve on the recycling going on because, most of the people in Auckland don't recycle and the Auckland council thinks it will be bad for our community.
5. In the strictest sense, recycling of a material would produce a fresh supply of the same material—for example, used office paper would be converted into new office paper, or used foamed polystyrene into new polystyrene.
6. On the Awhitu Peninsula you buy official stickers for rubbish bags and seeing as you're pretty rural, you'll have to drive your own recyclables to a transfer station. In Rodney, you're responsible for your own waste and can buy a bin or bag from one of several local companies.
7. This financial year the Auckland Council will spend about $85 million on waste management, but recover only about $20 million from charges. Taking into account population growth, it estimates the region will produce 1.58 million tonnes of waste a year by 2022.
8. The Auckland council is saying is that very soon we will have too pay for plastic bags and the cost of them will be around 55 cents or 45 cents.
9. Very soon the council will also provide each household with a smaller bin, for those who aren't already recycling their own green waste, and would collect it once a week to keep the smelly mess away.
10. Waste audits from last year show an increased interest in recycling in the former council areas where the "disposer pays" models were brought in.
    
    
    This is facts about Recycling.