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The numbers help the user separate incompatible plastics before placing them in the bins. For example, one piece of styrene plastic accidentally mixed into a ton of polyethylene plastic would ruin the entire batch during recycling, preventing any of the polyethylene plastic from being used and forcing it to become just ordinary garbage.
That would depend very much on what the solid was. Gold would take up much less volume than plastic.
its a ton-an ounce is much much smaller
20 ton 44,800 lbs
A short Ton contains 907.18474 kilogrammes
Every 1 ton of plastic recycled can save amount of water that can be used by 1 person for 2 months or almost 1800 pounds of oil or 1 year of 2 people's energy requirement. Over it, recycling plastic saves money this optimizing resources as well as consumer surpluses.http://www.blueplanetrecycling.ca/about-us/
. Recycling plastics and making them into new products makes alot of money and thousands of new products are made daily. According to wasterecycling.wordpress.com. For every 1 ton of plastic that is recycled we save the equivalent of 2 people's energy use for 1 year
Paper, like most recyclable commodities, has a set value per ton as waste paper. Find out what the value per ton of waste paper is in your area, and that's how much you can get for it.
2.5 barrels of oil
The numbers help the user separate incompatible plastics before placing them in the bins. For example, one piece of styrene plastic accidentally mixed into a ton of polyethylene plastic would ruin the entire batch during recycling, preventing any of the polyethylene plastic from being used and forcing it to become just ordinary garbage.
$38
18,160,000$
A ton
a shat ton
About 908 thousand dollars
Around 350 million tonnes.
8 cents