If we were all a bit more careful with what we put in our rubbish bins, we can help to save the environment and help to keep as much rubbish out of the landfills as possible.

1. How Energy From
Waste Can Help Save
The Planet
The Worrying State
Of Our Environment

2. Recycling o Recycling, by now should be part of intuitive
repertoire, a habit you do in your every day
routine.
o There are parts of our lives that we have changed
and altered due to our attitude towards rubbish.
o Recycling has increase considerably over the last
ten years. The average person in 1991-1992 in the
UK produced roughly 428kg of waste in a year with
only a shocking 11kg of the amount recycled.
o Currently, the average amount of waste now
produced is 466kg per person with 185kg of waste
now being recycled.

3. Awarenesso A decade ago, there were few people who knew what
climate change was, and even fewer of us realised that we
could in fact recycle half the things we threw away in out
rubbish bins.
o We have long known now that our planet it teetering on
the edge of environmental disaster. Our ozone is getting
thinner, our rainforest are getting smaller, our oil reserves
are running lower and our time to reverse the problems
caused by burning fossil fuels is growing ever shorter.

4. Technology o The technological advances of recent years have
undoubtedly had an impact on the environment.
This is due to the fact that the increasing
sophistication and efficiency of these renewable
energy technologies means that they are becoming
more viable as alternatives to fossil fuels.
o Solar energy has developed paint-on solar cells.
o Wind energy has advanced in a bladeless wind
turbine.
o Biomass Power uses algae (50% oil and 0%
emissions) to be a biodiesel as it is full of fuel
potential.
o Energy is produced from waste to decrease the
amount of rubbish going in a landfill

5. Energy From Waste
o There has been some success in renewable
resources. The process of energy from waste has
helped to maximize recycling and minimize the
amount of waste thrown away in a landfill.
o By investing in the latest technology, some waste
management companies have been able to
generate 100% green electricity from household
and industrial waste, minimizing the use of landfills
in the UK.
o All the waste collected is put through processes to
remove any recyclable material.

6. The Process:
o Building materials which can be reused such as bricks,
sand and soil are repackaged and sent to other plants
to be refined.
o Plastics are boiled before going to specialist packaging
companies which reuse plastic materials.
o Metal waste is sent direct to merchants to melt down.
o The remaining waste is screened to ensure there are
no more reusable materials before being burned.
o The whole process is fully automated and closely
monitored so that the steam produced from this
processes is used to power turbines which generate 5
megawatts of totally green electricity.

7. Targets For The Future
o Targets set by the European Landfill Directive state
that landfill use in England and Wales must be no
more than 8 million tonnes of waste by 2012/2013
and reduced further to 5.5 million tonnes by
2019/2020.

8. Making A Change
o It is obvious that we can’t continue to carry on the way we’re
going, we need to stop drilling and get our heads together to
come up an alternative to our dependence on natural gas and oil.
o We can take some comfort in the changes we’ve made to our
everyday lives but we need the people in charge, the politicians,
and environmental envoys from across the globe and scientists to
knock their head together, drop the political wishy-washiess and
sort this out before it all becomes too late.