Recycling

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Facts About Recycling

Fact 1: Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to listen

to a full album on your iPod.

Fact 2: Recycling 100 cans could light your bedroom for two whole

weeks.

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Fact 3: Recycling is a process to create new items from old

and used materials. This helps in reducing energy and potentially useful materials from being wasted.

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Fact 4: Recycling is a part of waste disposal hierarchy –

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

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Fact 5: Aluminium cans can actually be recycled and put

back onto the shelf at your local grocery store in just about 2 months.

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Fact 6: Aluminum cans are probably the most recycled item. While this is true, you can also recycle other forms of

aluminum as well.

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Fact 7: Recycling an aluminum can helps to save a great deal of energy, in fact, enough to run your home television

for about three hours!

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Fact 8: Most beverage cans are made up of aluminum, even

though there are other products that go into it as well.

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Fact 9: In 2015, paper recycling had increased over 89%

since 1990.A glass container can go from a recycling bin to a

store shelf in as few as 30 days.

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Fact 10: If we recycled all newspapers, we could save over 250

million trees each and every year.

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Fact 11: Most people use at least seven trees each year,

through wood, paper and other types of products that use trees. That is over 2 trillion trees throughout the

course of the year when you think about it.

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Fact 12: Most people use around 680 pounds of paper each year, and most people just throw it away instead of

recycling it for further use.

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Fact 13: 2000 pounds of recycled paper can actually help to save 17 trees, over 350 gallons of oil, and a lot of landfill space. That also means less air pollution!

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Fact 14: Recycling helps to conserve energy and as a result

less greenhouse gases are emitted.

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Fact 15: Plastic bags that are thrown into the

ocean kill over a million sea creatures a year.

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Fact 16: Over 60% of the trash that ends in dustbin

could be recycled.

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Fact 17: Over 25 trillion Styrofoam coffee cups

are thrown away each year!

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Fact 18: Glass jars can be recycled,

but there are many that are just thrown away.

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Fact 19: 24 trees are cut down to make 1 ton of newspaper.

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Fact 20: Recycling helps to reduce the amount of waste

that goes to landfills and as a result

less harmful emissions like methane gas are released into the earth’s atmosphere.

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Fact 21: A modern glass bottle

could take over 4000 years to actually decompose, and if it is in the landfill

then it will probably take even longer than that.

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Fact 22: Most dumps are made up of

a third of packaging materials that could be recycled.

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Fact 22: Recycling one aluminum can saves enough

electricity to run a TV for 3 hours

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Fact 23: Recycling one glass bottle or jar saves

enough electricity to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours

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Fact 24: Recycling one ton of plastic saves the

equivalent of 1,000–2,000 gallons of petrol

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