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When most of us think about recycling, we usually think about the standard recycled items like plastic bottles, soda cans and paper. But there are actually hundreds of other materials out there that can be recycled into new and interesting items.

Colorado Rocky Mountain School Work Crews provide an avenue for students to take leadership roles and initiate change on campus toward creating a more sustainable life. The Recycling Work Crew maintains recycling stations in all the dorms and major buildings. They collect recycled materials and take them to the local recycling center.

For the first time in Olympic history, the medals at the Olympic Games contain gold, silver and copper that has been recovered from electronic waste (e-waste). Each medal was made with a tiny bit of the more than 140,000 tons of e-waste that otherwise would have been sent to Canadian landfills. More than 1,000 medals to be awarded at the Vancouver games this year.

These days, there are highly innovative techniques that have evolved over the years, that enable professional waste management workers to recycle each product that is not required anymore due to loss of its utility purpose, and create a whole new product, or raw material, which can be utilized in a variety of ways to manufacture...

All the waste products are then sent to different recycling units, where there are new raw materials manufactured. The technology and equipment utilized for such purposes are very advanced and are safe for the environment of our planet.