Why We Should Recycle...
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 9:05 pm
http://www.fullcirclerecycling.com/faq.html
* In this decade, it is projected that Americans will throw away over 1 million tons of aluminum cans and foil, more than 11 million tons of glass bottles and jars, over 4 and a half million tons of office paper and nearly 10 million tons of newspaper. Almost all of this material could be recycled.
* Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates 1 job, landfilling the same amount creates 6 jobs, recycling the same 10,000 tons creates 36 jobs.
* In a lifetime, the average American will throw away 600 times their adult weight in garbage. This means that each adult will leave a legacy of 90,000 lbs.of trash for their children.
* Recycling all of your home's waste newsprint, cardboard, glass, and metal can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 850 pounds a year.
* Each of us generates on average 4.4 pounds of waste per day per person.
* Enough energy is saved by recycling one aluminum can to run a TV set for three hours or to light one 100 watt bulb for 20 hours.
* Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
* Annually, enough energy is saved by recycling steel to supply Los Angeles with electricity for almost 10 years.
* You can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one new one.
* Nationwide, paper and cardboard account for 41 percent of all municipal solid waste--that's close to half of all the garbage generated in the U.S.
* Every Sunday, the United States wastes nearly 90% of the recyclable newspapers. This wastes about 500,000 trees!
* Every day Americans buy 62 million newspapers and throw out 44 million. That's the equivalent of dumping 500,000 trees into a landfill every week.
* American's throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall 12 feet high stretching from Los Angeles to New York City.
* 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.
* One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.
* It takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday Edition of the New York Times.
* One ton of recycled paper saves 3,700 pounds of lumber and 24,000 gallons of water.
* One ton of recycled paper uses:64% less energy, 50% less water,74% less air pollution, saves 17 trees and creates 5 times more jobs than one ton of paper products from virgin wood pulp.
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* In this decade, it is projected that Americans will throw away over 1 million tons of aluminum cans and foil, more than 11 million tons of glass bottles and jars, over 4 and a half million tons of office paper and nearly 10 million tons of newspaper. Almost all of this material could be recycled.
* Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates 1 job, landfilling the same amount creates 6 jobs, recycling the same 10,000 tons creates 36 jobs.
* In a lifetime, the average American will throw away 600 times their adult weight in garbage. This means that each adult will leave a legacy of 90,000 lbs.of trash for their children.
* Recycling all of your home's waste newsprint, cardboard, glass, and metal can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 850 pounds a year.
* Each of us generates on average 4.4 pounds of waste per day per person.
* Enough energy is saved by recycling one aluminum can to run a TV set for three hours or to light one 100 watt bulb for 20 hours.
* Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
* Annually, enough energy is saved by recycling steel to supply Los Angeles with electricity for almost 10 years.
* You can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one new one.
* Nationwide, paper and cardboard account for 41 percent of all municipal solid waste--that's close to half of all the garbage generated in the U.S.
* Every Sunday, the United States wastes nearly 90% of the recyclable newspapers. This wastes about 500,000 trees!
* Every day Americans buy 62 million newspapers and throw out 44 million. That's the equivalent of dumping 500,000 trees into a landfill every week.
* American's throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall 12 feet high stretching from Los Angeles to New York City.
* 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.
* One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.
* It takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday Edition of the New York Times.
* One ton of recycled paper saves 3,700 pounds of lumber and 24,000 gallons of water.
* One ton of recycled paper uses:64% less energy, 50% less water,74% less air pollution, saves 17 trees and creates 5 times more jobs than one ton of paper products from virgin wood pulp.
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