Recycling the World

November 15 in America, the Day of recycling, the annual event, which became part of the calendar in 1997 at the initiative of the National Coalition of recycling. The need to reuse and recycle material has never been so urgent as today. The world population reached 7 billion, and America is responsible for a disproportionately large share of consumption of the planet’s resources. In many countries waste is produced by the strict necessity. In other countries, artists, government officials and business representatives have invented creative and useful ways to reuse materials – use plastic bottles can be reborn as works of art, warm blankets, or heating oil. We suggest you look at how things are going with the recycling and reuse of raw materials in countries around the world.

Worker resting on a pile of plastic bottles in recycling center in Tszyasing, Zhejiang Province, China, November 6, 2011

Four-year Hayley from Grand Haven Alsip is among hundreds of flowers made from recycled plastic bottles of water on Wednesday, September 21, 2011.

The bike made from recycled materials, spare parts of automobiles and bicycles in the shop owned by Roongrojna Sangwongprisarn in Bangkok on July 27, 2011. In Bangkok, opened four stores of the company named “Shop By Art.” The company also exports Roongrojna Sangwongprisarn their products to customers worldwide.

The compost is screened and sorted by quality and size at Woodhorn Group, where the recycling of Christmas trees and other green waste.Tangmere, Chichester, southern England, January 5, 2011.

The door is made from recycled materials – the entrance to a house in the village Kunkak in southern Helmand province in Afghanistan, 23 February 2011. The doors of homes in Helmand province are made of various materials – caps from containers, pieces of cloth, sacks of rice from the jar, or even – and often the doors are the only color element in the gray-beige landscape, where all the houses are absolutely alike.

Electronic components at the factory for processing of Ra-Tem Corp in Tokyo, October 15, 2010. Re-Tem Corp researches and develops technology for processing of rare earth metals that are of vital importance for the production of electronics.

Man burns computer scrap to extract from it metals that will be used for soldering the wires in a makeshift studio in Karachi, Pakistan, April 20, 2011.

A pair of “room-bubble” July 26, 2011 in the park in the town of Roubaix, France. The Bubble Room is made up of recycled plastic.

The lamp is made of vuvuzela (the stadium horns used by South African fans) was demonstrated during the competition for re-use of musical instruments, which took place after South Africa’s World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, 9 November 2010.

A model presents dress made from recycled materials, during the fashion show Ecofashion 2011, March 26, 2011, in Cali, Colombia.

Scout is among the used aluminum cans, of which the Boy Scouts have posted a huge fleur-de-lis, the Zocalo Plaza in Mexico City, October 9, 2011. Fleur-de-lis is the emblem of this group of Girl Scouts

Argentine designer Lucrecia Lovera, poses with a roll of videotape and bags made from recycled video tapes in his studio in Berlin, January 27, 2011.

Used pipes for scrap processors in Corfu, New York, July 7, 2011.

Breakage of firearms in a steel mill in Cleveland Thursday, October 20, 2011.

A man digging in a pile of trash to find copper and other metals that can be sold at the dump in Manila, Philippines, April 7, 2011.

“Tiger”, made of recycled materials on the eve of Chinese New Year in Sydney, February 21, 2010

Afghan girl rummages through the rubble in search of recyclable materials on the outskirts of Kabul, October 4, 2011.

Israeli designer Hadas Itskovich next to the model of the globe, which she created using recycled bottles on the eve of Earth Day in the city of Petah Tikva near Tel Aviv, March 24, 2011.

An employee with a crowbar mobile phone recycling section Ra-Tem Corp, in Tokyo on 15 October 2010.

Write-off of Israeli army tanks at the dump “, located on a military base near the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat, May 5, 2011. About 700 retired Israeli tanks were for sale at a price of approximately $ 0.25 per kilogram of metal.

A student of optometry at Ohio State University Patrick Milleson with a pile of discarded spectacles, in Columbus, Ohio, May 27, 2010. Students Faculty collect such glasses, repair and clean them. and then distribute to the needy.

Filipino Rodolfo Rivera, 65, plays handball, using a homemade wooden racket in Manila, the Philippines, Sunday, January 23, 2011.

Shooting inside the building EcoArk, made of plastic bottles during the exhibition in Taipei, April 9, 2010. The Taiwanese company has built three-storey exhibition hall, using his 1.5 million plastic bottles instead of bricks. The rally was held to raise interest in recycling