Amazing Facts About Recycling
Recycling is a process by which new material is created using old items. It is part of a waste disposal hierarchy that is: reduce, reuse, recycle. Here are 10 important facts about recycling.
1. Recycling one aluminum can save a lot of energy... enough to run your TV for three hours!
2. Recycling helps conserve natural resources like gas, coal, and oil.
3. Recycling 2,000 pounds of paper can save 17 trees.
4. The plastic bags that have ended up in the ocean 1411 over a million sea creatures every year.
5. Over 60% of what is thrown away in the garbage can be recycled!
6. A modem glass bottle takes about 4,000 years to decompose, and maybe even longer in a landfill. And this glass is 100% recyclable.
7. Most people produce about 4.4 pounds of garbage every day.
8. By recycling one ton of plastic, we can save between 1,000-2,000 gallons of gasoline.
9. Recycling one glass bottle can save enough energy to power a 100-watt bulb for four hours.
10. Making recycled paper produces 70% less air pollution than making new paper.
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Amazing Facts About Recycling
Glass:
- A modem glass bottle takes about 4,000 years to decompose, and maybe even longer in a landfill. And this glass is 100% recyclable.
- Recycling one glass bottle can save enough energy to power a 100-watt bulb for four hours.
Plastic:
- The plastic bags that have ended up in the ocean 1411 over a million sea creatures every year.
- By recycling one ton of plastic, we can save between 1,000-2,000 gallons of gasoline.
Paper:
- Recycling 2,000 pounds of paper can save 17 trees.
- Making recycled paper produces 70% less air pollution than making new paper.
Aluminum:
- Recycling one aluminum can save a lot of energy... enough to run your TV for three hours!
Other facts:
- Recycling helps conserve natural resources like gas, coal, and oil.
- Over 60% of what is thrown away in the garbage can be recycled!
- Most people produce about 4.4 pounds of garbage every day.
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