These recycling facts have been compiled from
various sources including the National Recycling
Coalition, the Environmental Protection Agency,
and
Earth911.org. While I make every effort to provide
accurate information, I make no warranty or guarantee that the facts
presented here are exact.
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Cool Recycling Facts :
- Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a
TV for three hours - or the equivalent of a half a gallon
of gasoline.
- More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product.
- An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can
500 years from now!
- Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute!
- If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about
250,000,000 trees each year!
- Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17
trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill
space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of
water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water
savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!
- The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use
waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill
using new pulp.
- Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the
ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!
- Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it
in an incinerator.
- A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to
decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill.
- Motor oil never wears out, it just gets dirty. Oil can be recycled,
re-refined and used again, reducing our reliance on imported oil.
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