You want to know When is Recycling Day 2021? Because yes, recycling also has its special day. Not in vain, recycling is the main battle to respect the ecosystem and stop the depletion of its resources. Let’s see everything about this date, when it is and how we can celebrate it.
When is World Recycling Day 2021 celebrated?
Green for glass, blue for cardboard, black for organic, red? yellow?… so many colors to remember and with great importance for the environment and, above all, for our future. These colors represent the type of bag or container in which we must deposit our garbage.
The origin of the day of the celebration is not very clear, but since 2005 UNESCO (United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture for its acronym in English) declared that each may 17th activities would be carried out to promote the increase of recycling worldwide.
Its main objective is to try to generate awareness and reduce the volumes of waste generatedthus minimizing our carbon footprint.
But…What is the carbon footprint? It is an indicator of the environment that allows knowing how much carbon dioxide and other gases are produced during an activity or are the product of poor disposal of waste, causing the air, soil and water where we live to be contaminated.
Why is World Recycling Day 2021 celebrated?
Yes, UNESCO declared that World Recycling Day would be celebrated every year on May 17, as a way of raising awareness among the planet’s inhabitants that a large part of its pollution is due to poor collection and disposal of the waste that is produced and that, if done properly, we can reduce the effects and improve the quality of life of people and future generations.
Let’s review the colors of the different containers:
- Green: This deposit is used to deposit glasses and bottles. But only the glass, so that when we are going to throw these away, we must remove all the accessories that are made of another material, such as: caps, adhesive paper, corks, etc., which may be attached to the bottles. It is also convenient to wash them to remove food and drink residues, so that they reach the processor directly.
- Blue: In this container are deposited the cardboard and paper that they come out of the different activities either inside the house or in an office, as with the previous container, the paper must be clean of organic waste. We can help more if when we deposit the cartons, we fold them, because that way there is more room and it is easier to transport.
- Yellow: Used to deposit the aluminum cans and plasticsalways clean of organic waste.
- Red: This is used for biological and hazardous wastethese containers are rarely used in homes, they are generally found in hospitals and laboratories, the deposited waste can be dangerous to humans and the environment and needs special handling.
- Orange or Black: In some countries there is still no difference between the orange bag and the black bag, in which the organic waste and in some the waste that should go in the other containers is deposited, but that has organic remains, ideally it would only be used for the first ones.
How to celebrate World Recycling Day 2021?
First of all, we must bear in mind that recycling should not be for a day, a passing trend or fashion, but that recycling should be a way of life that we must implement, although sometimes the process can be tedious (because it is must separate each waste, clean and dispose of in the corresponding bag).
It is necessary to take some trouble and have the will to recycle if we want to improve the quality of life of all the inhabitants of the planet, reduce the volume of waste, preserve natural resources by reusing products and reduce the volume of energy used (since it takes less to produce a product from recycled material than a new one).
There is also an Earth Day. See when it is:
But to begin with, this may 17th let’s start with practice the 3Rs Which are the following:
Reduce: There are products that are highly polluting. We can quote packaged products, or electronic appliances. So what is appropriate is to reduce the consumption of these and make reasonable use of natural resources.
As a family, for example, we can compete to see who can take a bath in the shortest possible time, or who can brush their teeth the fastest. They are entertaining and effective ways to reduce the use of resources such as water and also electricity.
Recycle: We hear this word a lot, but what does it mean? It is turning something already used into something new.
this day we can make puppets out of old sockstoys with boxes, musical instruments with covers (such as a tambourine), encourage the creativity of the little ones with games to discover what new things they can do with everyday objects that they no longer use.
Re-use: Means using the products again, such as reuse the water bottle to fill it or use both sides of the sheets of paper.
At home we can use the bags that they give us in the supermarket as garbage bags, so as not to waste more plastic.
Other activities we can do
Although it is a day that is celebrated worldwide, there is a bit of ignorance about the subject, so you can start with a campaign so that this day is celebrated with the honors it deserves and is better known and recognized.
And you, do you celebrate Water Day? Take note of when it is:
To begin with, we can organize a neighborhood campaign or contest in favor of recycling and award a prize to the person who recycles the most.
At school, we can carry out activities with students that allow them to strengthen their knowledge of recycling and make it easier to recognize where to deposit garbage.
Other activities are to a planting of trees. Or look for solutions for the organic waste left by animals in the park, such as establishing a composting site within the same park, where people deposit their animal waste and improve the land that will be used for planting in the place. .
It can be studied for the possibility of placing solar panels to illuminate and reduce energy consumption.
Another alternative is to perform craft workshops with recycled materialso the next holiday (Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Halloween, Christmas, etc.), instead of buying decorations, let’s make crafts to give away with the elements we have on hand.
You will have seen that there are simple plans, because it is the small daily changes that really generate great results in the long term. So, to recycle it has been said!
It may interest you: