Recycling at the Gulf University of Science and Technology

GUST playing it's part

While I was wondering around at gust today, I stumbled upon a recycling container on the 1st floor near the classroom area. It turns out that there are recycling containers spread out all over the campus. I am delighted to see that gust is taking an initiative to become more environmentally friendly. Seeing the recycling container gives me hope and belief that we are becoming more environmentally friendly, and that Kuwait as a whole is taking the right steps to become an eco-friendly leader.

A Recycling bin located in GUST

The Recycling Process

A Look at the Recycling Process

Did you ever think of what happens to the things (objects) that you throw into the recycling canisters? Here's a glance at how glass, plastic, and paper are put through the recycling process.

Glass

Glass has been used by people for as long as 3,000 years ago. Glass was used by ancient Egyptians to make cups, jewellery, and many other items. Glass is created of soda ash, limestone, and sand. Glass is amongst one of the easiest thing to recycle. This is how Glass is recycled.

Glass gathered together, outside the recycling center

• The used glass is brought to recycling centers.                           
• The glass is arranged and separated according to color at recycling centers. 
• The glass is transported to a preparing office where it is cleaned and squashed into cullets. 
• The cullet is brought to an assembling plant and blended with more pop slag, sand, and limestone. 
• The mixture is warmed in a heater as well as transformed into a fluid. 
• The fluid is then put into molds and formed into new items.

Water bottles are made of plastic

Plastic

Not at all like glass, which is made completely of regular minerals and substances. Plastic is made out of crude and man made materials, including the likes crude oil and petroleum. Here's the means by which plastic is recycled.

• The used plastics are brought to a recycling center.
• The plastic goes to a recycling plant where it is assessed and washed. 
• The recyclable plastic is washed and hacked into little chips. 
• The chips are differentiated in a flotation tank. 
• The chips are dried and after that dissolved into a fluid. 
• The fluid is put through a scanner screen for additional cleaning. It turns into lengthily strands. 
• The strands are cooled and cut and become hail like pellets. 
• Then they go to producers and manufacturers who use them to make new items.

Paper

Tiny fibers is what makes up paper. Since these fibers is what makes up paper than means it can only be recycled a certain amount of times. The reason why paper cannot be recycled many times is because the fiber eventually becomes weak. Almost all forms of paper can be recycled, but glossy or waxy coating types of paper don't get recycled, because they are too expensive to recycle. When considering to recycle paper, you should try to separate white paper, news print, and cardboard. Here’s an in depth analysis of the process of recycling paper.

Tractor taking piles of Paper to get recycled

• Take the paper to the recycling center.
• The paper is sorted and transported to a pulping office. 
• The paper is absorbed and warmed colossal vats, getting to be mash. Chemicals in the fluid separate the ink from the paper. 
• The mash is screened and cleaned to evacuate paste, different garbage and any remaining ink. 
• The mash is refined and beaten to make it prepared to wind up paper once more. 
• The mash is nourished into a machine that releases the mash onto a level moving screen where it structures sheets. 
• The sheets are moved and dried and prepared for their new life.

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5 ways to go green

The following list shows you how to go green in 5 different ways

Buy local

Locally grown food can be found in almost all supermarkets

Buying local means more than just buying “nearby”. Long transport of produce contributes to air pollution. Vehicle emissions consists of toxic fumes that we breathe in, so reducing air pollution ensures cleaner air in our lungs. Purchasing produce at the local farmers’ market also cuts down on the packaging material required for long transport. Not only is buying local better for the environment, but it also tastes better. Fruits and vegetables begin to lose nutrients quickly after being harvested, so the longer the produce travels, the older and lower in nutrients it is.

Unplug electronics

Unplug electronics when your not using them

Unplug your electronics and turn off lights when not being used. Numerous individuals are not mindful that leaving hardware connected to, actually when not being used, squanders power. The most widely recognized waste of power is leaving a telephone or smart phone charger connected to when it is not charging anything. Despite the fact that the power utilized is insignificant, it has a huge effect about whether. An alternate normal waste of power is leaving lights on when not being used. When you leave the room, switch off the lights.

Reusable bottles

Supplant single-utilization water bottles with reusable ones. Simply in light of the fact that a plastic may be checked as "biodegradable" does not mean it helps nature. Plastic is made of cruel chemicals that discharge poisons when processed by microscopic organisms. We interact with a portion of the microbes through our meat utilization. Case in point, a plastic bottle thinks that its path into the sea and is decayed by microbes. The microbes now comprise of poisons from the plastic and a fish consumes the microscopic organisms. The fish is presently defiled with poisons and we consume the fish. Hence, our bodies now comprise of the dangerous chemicals of the plastic we send to landfills.

Don't buy plastic bottled water

Eat less meat

Eat less meat, eat greener

lessen your meat consumption. Meat, particularly hamburger, requires numerous different assets before it achieves supermarkets. Diminishing assets utilized for domesticated animals spares a colossal measure of water, cropland, and fossil fills needed to process the meat. Despite the fact that water is viewed as a renewable asset, it may not be so for long. The high rate of populace development requests drinkable water speedier than it can be reestablished.

Recycle

There are many types of recycling

Making items from crude materials costs significantly more than if they were produced using reused items. Save natural resources for the future. Reusing and recycling decreases the requirement for crude materials; it likewise utilizes less vitality, in this way protecting natural resources in the distant future.

This video puts the list above into action

Even more ways to become environmentally friendly:

50 Ways to Help the Plant

Go Green Save Green

Top 5 Reasons You Should Go Green Clean

The following list answers the question as to why you should go green now

Our existence depends on it

People

Let's start with the children.
Did you know that childhood asthma has increased 60% since 1980 and now affects 10 million children under the age of 16 and is the leading cause of absence in US schools? 
But let's not forget our husbands and wives, sisters and brothers, mothers and fathers, grandmas and grandpas and last, but not least, YOU!

Pets

Our beloved companions.
Be they cats, dogs, birds, gerbils, geckos, snakes, or even pot bellied pigs! they all can benefit by switching to Green Clean Solutions.
Did you know veterinarians are treating more cancer and there is an increase in behavioural problems due to poisoning of household pets? Conventional cleaning products can be highly toxic to animals...particularly our very small ones. Think twice when exposing your pets to cleaning and other household chemicals like pest baits, repellants and eliminators.

Planet

Mother Earth.
For her health and therefore our own, it's time to consider what we are exposing her to when we "rinse away" the solvents and bleach used in many household cleaners. Some of these never go away. Did you know that toxic chemicals and carcinogens have been found in the ice of our planet's polar caps as well as in the umbilical cord blood of new born babies?

Air

Indoor air quality.

We must take care of our Natural Resources

This is a huge issue, especially for those of us who live in the middle east, and places where we spend months and months with the windows and doors closed tight keep the cold air in. Cleaning with all natural products is a great first step to help clean up the air in your home and protect your family's health.

Water

Water conservation should also be considered when cleaning. Look for cleaning products that are low sudsing and contain no sulfates. They rinse away with less water and leave less residue in fabrics and on surfaces. With Green Clean Solutions you can even reuse the grey water for watering gardens and plants and flowers!​

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