Recycling is important...
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Recycling Facts:
Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
The world's largest human made structure is the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island in New York.
Americans generate over 180,000,000 tons of waste each year.
Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy used to make the material from scratch. That means you can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same energy it takes to make one can out of new material.
Each year, the United States discards enough aluminum to completely rebuild the American commercial airline fleet and enough steel to completely rebuild the cities of Chicago and New York.
Each of us generates on average 4.4 pounds of waste per day per person.
Recycling all of your home's waste newsprint, cardboard, glass, and metal can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 850 pounds a year.
It is estimated that 150 million computers will be discarded in the United States alone, enough to fill a hole one acre in area and 3.5 miles deep.
Every Sunday, the United States wastes nearly 90% of the recyclable newspapers. This wastes about 500,000 trees.
Only one percent of the world's water supply is usable. 97 percent is contained in the oceans or seas and 2 percent is found frozen in the polar caps.
Paper made from paper instead of virgin fiber requires up to 70% less energy.
160 million tons of trash is produced each year in the US. 80% is presently landfilled, 10% burned, and a mere 10% is recycled.
1 ton of recycled paper saves 3700 pounds of lumber and 24,000 gallons of water.
We throw away enough glass every 2 weeks to fill both World Trade Center buildings to the top.
Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates 1 job, land filling the same amount creates 6 jobs, recycling the same 10,000 tons creates 36 jobs.
It takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday Edition of the New York Times.
We throw away enough diapers every year to stretch from the Earth to the Moon 7 times.
Americans throw away enough office paper each year to build a 12-foot-high wall of paper from New York to Los Angeles.
If everyone in the U.S. recycled just 1/10 of their newsprint, we would save the estimated equivalent of about 25 million trees a year.
Recycling just one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for 3 hours.
Making glass from recycled materials cuts related air pollution 20% and water pollution 50%.
About half of the nation's paper, 8% of the steel, 75% of the glass, 40% of the aluminum, and 30% of the total plastics output are used solely to wrap and decorate consumer products.
Most new toilets use about 1.8 gallons of water per flush but- The "average" toilet in homes today probably uses about 3 or 4 gallons
A standard shower head uses about 2.2 gallons of water per minute.
Glass can be recycled "infinitely many times" and it never wears out.
Making glass from recycled materials reduces related water pollution 50% and air pollution 20%.
Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74% of the energy used to produce them from raw materials.
Sixty percent of the world's lead supply comes form recycled car batteries.
Making cans from recycled aluminum cuts related air pollution by 95%
The energy saved form one recycled aluminum can will operate a television set for three hours or to light one 100 watt bulb for 20 hours.
Recycling paper consumes 61% less water and 70% less energy then using Natural Resources.
Waste paper accounts for about 40% of our solid waste
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