Recycle
Many students finish University and then simply throw away any unwanted items. The MyUniSwap.com team decided to investigate by going to have a look at the bins in some of the student flat areas at the end of term...
The items that you see below have been thrown away by other students. If they used MyUniSwap.com this could have all been avoided:
All of these items here could be in working order. The usual case is that the students don't have the space to take the items home with them or have the time to sell the items. Therefore, they end up sat in the bin, creaeting more unnecessary waste.
This television may have been thrown away by an international student. It isn't cost effective for the international students to take big items like this home with them. Once again they don't have the time to sell the items, so they just thow them away.
It's a dirty job but someones gotta do it................
The amount of items that have been taken out of the bin here is unbelievable. All of these items could be sold on MyUniSwap.com.
All of the items actually work! They have been left by students who feel that they no longer need them. They should have been put on MyUniSwap.com where they could have swapped their stash for cash:
More facts about recycling
Recycling seems to be the word on everybody's lips at the moment. With concerts to highlight the problem and celebrities and eco warriors constantly urging us to go carbon neutral everybody is under pressure to go green!!!!
However the average student need not despair because whilst going green and recycling is not typically at the top of their to-do list, it is possible to do your bit and gain something for yourself. How do you do this? Well quite simply by using MyUniSwap.com. If you think about it, every time you buy, sell or give something away for free you are recycling but by using our website you are getting something back.
As we care about the environment and the idea for MyUniSwap.com came out of our realisation that students have plenty of stuff that can be recycled by being put to use by somebody else we thought we'd give you some information on the green issue.
It's estimated that every household in the UK produces over tonne of waste per year but perhaps more shocking is the knowledge that around 60% of the rubbish that ends up a person's dustbin could be recycled.
Recycling is an excellent way of saving energy and conserving the environment. Did you know that:
- Up to 80% of a vehicle can be recycled. If your car is beyond repair and you are thinking about scrapping it., why not strip it down and sell the parts on MyUniSwap.com
- 9 out of 10 people would recycle more if it were made easier. This is where we come in, using our site is simple making it easier for you to connect with your fellow students and recycle your unwanted items.
- £36,000,000 worth of aluminium is thrown away each year. Help reduce this cost by recycling and reusing!
- Glass is 100% recyclable and can be used again and again.
- Glass that is thrown away and ends up in landfills will never decompose.
- Recycled paper produces 73% less air pollution than if it was made from raw materials.
- 12.5 million tonnes of paper and cardboard are used annually in the UK.
- The average person in the UK gets through 38kg of newspapers per year.
- It takes 24 trees to make 1 ton of newspaper. Just think how much you'll be helping to save the trees by selling your old ones and buying yours second-hand.
- Plastic can take up to 500 years to decompose.
These are just a few of the astonishing facts and figures about recycling and hopefully after reading these you'll see just how much of a difference you can make by doing your bit for the planet. We're not asking everybody to throw away their modern gadgets and become eco-warriors but we are asking people to think about the difference they could make.
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