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If you haven’t already known, Cycliclapse has been diligently collecting stuff and sending them for recycling on every alternate Sundays, in order to reduce our carbon footprint as well.

We first got to know about this collection drive called “Cash For Trash” only in late September 2013, which is held on every Sunday at Jurong West Street 51 (currently still ongoing), and has been going for it ever since early October.
Basically, you’ll be paid by per kg for the items you sent in for recycling.
The rates for each category of items can be seen below.
Here’s to tabulate a total of how much we’d recycled so far, and also to motivate everyone to do so too! ^_^

Week 1:
Papers — 7kg
Old Clothes — 13kg
Money ‘earned’ — S$3.30
Week 2:
Papers — 6kg
Plastics — 3kg
Money ‘earned’ — S$0.75Week 3:
Papers — 7kg
Money ‘earned’ — S$0.70Week 4:
Papers — 20kg
Plastics — 1kg
Aluminium — 4kg
Money ‘earned’ — S$4.50Week 5:
Papers — 14kg
Plastics — 2kg
Money ‘earned’ — S$1.50Week 6:
Papers — 10kg
Plastics — 0.5kg
Aluminium — 1kg
Money ‘earned’ — S$1.50Week 7:
Plastics — 1kg
Money ‘earned’ — S$0.05Week 8:
Papers — 1kg
Plastics — 1kg
Aluminium — 0.3kg
Money ‘earned’ — S$0.30Week 12:
Papers — 23kg
Plastics — 2kg
Aluminium — 1kg
Old Clothes — 5kg
Money ‘earned’ — S$3.90*GRAND TOTAL*

Papers: 88kg
We saved 1.5 trees, 616 gallons of water, 33.44 gallons of oil, 0.29 cubic yards of landfill space, and 352 kWh of electrical energy.
(Source: http://environment.about.com/od/recycling/a/The-Benefits-Of-Paper-Recycling-Why-Recycle-Paper.htm)

Plastics: 10.5kg
We saved 7.19 gallons of oil, 21kg of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, 0.08 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60.63 kWh of electrical energy.
(Sources: http://homeguides.sfgate.com/benefits-savings-recycling-plastic-79284.html / http://environment.about.com/od/recycling/a/benefits-of-plastics-recycling.htm)

Aluminium: 6.3kg (about 378 cans)
We saved 50.4kg of bauxite, 25.2kg of chemical products, 0.03 cubic metres of landfill space (when cans are crushed), and 92.22 kWh of electrical energy.
(Sources: http://environment.about.com/od/recycling/a/The-Benefits-Of-Aluminum-Recycling-Why-Recycle-Aluminum.htm / http://www.sustainableworld.org.uk/recyc_al.htm)

Old Clothes: 18kg
We reduced 64.8kg of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, 108,000 litres of water consumption, 5.4kg of the use of fertilisers, and 3.6kg of the use of pesticides.
(Source: http://www.onkaparingacity.com/onka/living_here/waste_recycling/recycling_revolution/dont_waste_your_clothes_give_them_a_second_life.jsp)

Money ‘earned’: S$16.50

Everybody!! Let’s all start doing our part today!!! *juggles bottles and cans*

.let’s.all.practise.recycling.

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As my heading suggests, everyone of us should incorporate recycling into our daily routine.
Personally, I’ve been doing that since I-forgot-from-when-onwards.
During my childhood times, my dad had already drilled this into my mind, be it through his own actions or words.
It’s a good thing that nowadays more and more people are aware of how the 3Rs (Reuse / Reduce / Recycle) can benefit our dear Earth.
So much so that we now have organisations going around collecting recycling materials every fortnightly, or having recycling containers being placed at strategic places around our country at our convenience.

For my block, the organisation comes by every fortnight on Friday mornings to collect our recycling materials, plus give us new bags to contain more recycling stuff for the next round of collection.
My family has since been even more diligent in sorting out the different recycling materials into different bags before the staff comes by to collect.
It’s amazing how much papers/plastic/metal we can collect in 2 weeks’ time without realising.

Recently, my side-kick Ginzy found another place where we can actually sell these recycling materials for cash!
So we decided to bring some stuff over to recycle.
On my side, I brought over 3 bags of old clothes to ‘sell’.
Based on this chart, I got $2.60 for my 3 bags of old clothes that weighed 13kg in all!
Ginzy earned $0.70 for her 7kg of newspapers heh…
They have this poster there to tell you more about why we should practise the 3Rs.
We plan to go for this once every fortnight so that there’s more time for us to collect more recycling materials!
Here’s what we’ve accumulated in just one week!
Everyone of us should do our part in saving the environment, in any ways possible.
Every bit counts, no matter how small.
So let’s start practising the 3Rs if you haven’t already!
It’s never too late! =D