6.+Research

What we collect:

 * [[image:http://www.manukau.govt.nz/SiteCollectionImages/rubbish%20plastics.jpg align="right" caption="Recycle rubbish."]]Plastic bottles; and containers (any plastic container from the kitchen, bathroom or laundry)
 * Paper and cardboard, including juice and milk cartons (including Tetrapak)
 * Glass jars and bottles
 * Tins and cans
 * Clean aluminium foil, plates and trays
 * Empty aerosol cans.

What we don't collect:

 * [[image:http://www.manukau.govt.nz/SiteCollectionImages/rubbish%20nonrecycle.jpg align="right" caption="Non-recyble rubbish."]]Rubbish
 * Plastic bags
 * Plastic food wrap
 * Garden waste
 * Food waste
 * Clothing
 * Engine oil bottles and automotive parts
 * Paint or chemicals
 * Ashes
 * Expanded polystyrene such as:
 * foam hot drink cups
 * foam hamburger take-away clamshells
 * foamed meat trays and
 * protective foam packaging
 * Drinking glasses
 * Light bulbs
 * Mirrors
 * Window glass
 * Windscreen glass
 * Ceramics, crockery, porcelain and oven-ware
 * Disposable nappies
 * Computers
 * Car batteries.

Researches on landfills:
A landfill is also known as a rubbish dump. Landfill is just simply a big hole to chuck rubbish in. Landfills are the most common method to get rid of the rubbish in the world and its built on the ground or on a abandon football stadium. The aim of a landfill is to avoid the environments and other things. A landfill often pollutes the area around it and surroundings, a lot of animals look for food in the landfill and mostly end up trapped in a plastic bag or tin cans. media type="youtube" key="vJ1HmzsLwqc" height="385" width="480"A You-tube video in Landfills
 * ======__What is a landfill?__ ======

Landfill pollutes the local environments and put the animals endanger. Animals like birds and rats etc comes to the landfill and look for food, they often gets stuck in the plastic bags or tin cans. Animals get stuck in there and they can't come out or fly away so they just die. The rubbish gets buried under ground in the soil and the gas it produce might goes through soil and rots/pollutes the local environment's tree/flower roots underground. And landfill effects the greenhouse gases, landfill produces a poison gas called "methane" and if you don't pipe the methane gases away it will cause a explosion. A methane gas is a gas that is produced by landfills and live-stocks.  Methane is poisonous. Methane is a common, naturally occurring and human-produced gas that can have serious climate change impacts when it is not captured. When captured, it can be used as a fuel. The rubbish gets buried under the land in a big hole and when the hole is filling up to the top. People cover it, but actually under the ground, the food and some other rubbish starting to rot and create a gas called "Methane Gas"
 * __What are the negative effects?__
 * __What is a methane gas?__

__1st way:__ We could capture it and use the methane gas as fuel.We pipe it out and test it. If it passed the test then we are able to use it. We have to test the quantity and the quality of the methane gas. So we know how good the gas is and how much gas are there.
 * __What are the two ways of dealing with methane gas?__

__2nd way:__We burn it, there's another way of say it, it's called 'flaring"

=__The four "R"'s---__= ​

There are four main ways to reduce the amount of rubbish that ends up in landfill site.They are sometimes called the four "R"'s....

 * __Refuse__---Say "NO" to plastic bags or any other food packaging .For example: When you go shopping, at the checkout, people usually ask you do you want a bag for it and we should say "NO THANKS" if we only brought a few objects or "I HAVE MY OWN CLOTH BAG"
 * __Reduce__---Use less things, reduce the amount of rubbish that ends up in landfills. Like use the both side of an A4 paper so we use less paper then we usually do.
 * __Re-use__---Use things again. For example: You brought a bottle of coke, after you drank the coke, we could cut the bottle in half and we could put things in there for decoration,etc.
 * __Recycle__---To change a old material into a new one, for example: We could compost the food scraps and use it as a kind of plant fertilizer. Make sure that you put the scrap paper in the paper recycling bin so people will collect in and send it to the paper recycling factory and transfer the old paper into brand new A4 paper.