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__Information about recycling:__
Recycling involves preventing waste of useful materials by processing used materials into new products. This also helps to reduce energy usage, recude air and water pollution and reduce the consumption of raw materials. Recycling is a key process in the modern world to help reduce waste and it is the third component of the Reduce Reuse Recycle waste hierarchy. The most common recyclable materials used are glass, paper, plastic, textiles and metal. It is also common we use biodegradable waste, such as food for composting, which should be considered a form of recycling. Materials which are used to recycle are usually picked up from a recycling bin and sorted, cleaned and made into new materials usually of a similar degree. For example, paper is often re-made into paper.

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· Clean Up. (2009). //About Recycling//. Retrieved September 10th 2010, from [] This website is a factual website about recycling for all age readers, but mainly adults. It is about the organisation Clean Up Australia and discusses ways in which Australians can recycle and ways to implement recycling in different places, such as schools and workplaces. It also goes on to suggest ways to recycle different items and items which can and can’t be recycled. It is overall a website about recycling and living green. · Sustain Ability International Pty. Ltd. (n.d). //Ollie Recycles Australia//. Retrieved September 10th from [] This is a website for kids and involves different information about recycling and green living, as well as many different games and adventures for children to play. It is a great website to be used in schools as it also has a ‘teachers’ section and provides lots of easy to read information for kids. · Commonwealth of Australia. (2010). //Waste and Recycling.// Retrieved September 11th from [] This website is focussed on the rules and regulations of recycling and waste in Australia. It shows the National Waste Policy Implementation Plan as well as a number of fact sheets about recycling and waste in Australia. It also breaks different items, such as tyres, plastics and used oil into groups and shows appropriate ways to recycle or dispose of these items to cause minimal harm to the environment. · Recycle Australia Org. (n.d). //Helping Australians Recycle//. Retrieved September 9th from []. An informative website which includes everything to do with recycling, from learning about recycling to recycling awards, to free second hand items. The website gives a full table of contents of items that you can click on and tells you exactly how to recycle or appropriately dispose of specific items or who to contact in relation to that item.