Recycling Centre on Cromer Beach

As I walked along the beach in Cromer, Norfolk, I seized the opportunity to take the picture of a recycling bin which I believe voices the responsibility and care Cromer residents have for their environment. This spot of the United Kingdom is not only breathtaking by the beauty of its natural gift but the people are clearly concerned about the whole recycling process. There is no secret to Cromer residents dwelling in such a healthy blossoming environment; it is the fact that they keep on recycling and managing their waste properly.

This particular kind of bin (as shown in the picture) has a major purpose. The contents put in these bins are recycled en masse; therefore our waste does not go to waste. How? Simply, what we used to consider as garbage, is reprocessed to combine with raw materials in order to conceive the same initial product or to produce new ones. Hence, whilst feeding the recycling bin with your recyclable objects, you are symmetrically preserving our natural resources.

I am sure you all share the same opinion as me on this matter: if our resources are finite, should we not value them? For example, the manufacturing process for glass requires raw materials such as soda, lime and sand which have to be extracted from the earth and these are then melted together at 1500C. There is obviously an enormous amount of energy involved! However, for each tonne of glass that is recycled, approximately 1.2 tonnes of raw material and an equivalent of 136 litres of oil are saved, not to mention the CO2 emissions that are avoided from the initial melting process. Logically, it demands less energy to melt already made glass rather than producing the latter from scratch.

Some items that are apt for recycling are:

· Food and Garden waste which you can turn into compost.

· Glass

· Plastic bottles

· Paper and cardboard

· Drink cans

· Textiles

Ecoswitch encourages you to be kind to nature by recycling your waste products. It is not complicated a process and it releases such a pleasant feeling of having done something positive for the environment

TO NOTE: Recycle bins are not hidden but they are exposed around supermarkets, on streets, in buildings…and on top of that, you can have your personal one!

+ Waste = into

· 17 Large Trees

· 380 gallons of oil

· 7000 gallons of water

· 4,100 KW of electricity (energy to heat an average home for 6 months)

· Elimination of 69 pounds of Air pollution