Recycling

• Embroidery Tools and Materials include an Embroidery Hoop, Fabric, Embroidery Thread, Embroidery Needle, Embroidery Scissors / Shears, and a Needle Threader.
• Basic Embroidery Stitches include Seed Stitch, Satin Stitch, Bullion Stitch, French Knot, Fishbone Stitch, Back Stitch, Stem Stitch, and Fly Stitch.
• Gift Wrapping is the act of enclosing a gift in some sort of material, which may be held closed with ribbon and topped with a decorative bow.
• The wrapping of gifts points to a more essential experience, a way humans have learned to frame objects to designate them as special.
• Significance of Gift Wrapping includes turning any object into a gift and creating a surprise effect, being associated with happy events in a person's life, cueing a positive mood in the giftee by association, and expressing care and a positive attitude.
• Waste Management refers to all processes involving managing waste from its production to its disposal.
• Waste Hierarchy includes the 3Rs: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.
• Three Methods of Recycling include Mechanical Recycling, Energy Recycling, and Chemical Recycling.
• Types of Recycling include Paper Recycling, Cardboard Recycling, Glass Recycling, Wood Recycling, Plastic Recycling, and Fabric and Textile Recycling.
• Codes for different types of plastics include 1 PET/PETE, 2 HDPE, 3 PVC, 4 LDPE, 5 PP, 6 PS, and 7 for a variety of plastics that are difficult to recycle.
• Reduce

  • lessen the waste we generate
  • maintain balance in consumption and recycle & reuse
• Reuse

  • Reutilizing an item into the same or different use
  • The form is not changed; there is no process
• Recycle

  • Change the product into a  relatively new form
• Mechanical Recycling - there is no chemical process.
• Energy Recycling - convert waste into thermal and/or electrical energy.
• Chemical Recycling - complex process requiring high technology
• grinding, washing, separating, drying, granulating, compounding are examples of mechanical recycling
• Corrugated cardboard - thick, layered, durable; used in packaging and shipping.
• Paperboard/Chipboard - used in packaging non-frozen and non-liquid materials.
• Coated - wax cardboard and plastic-lined cardboard; used for liquids and frozen produce.