20 Facts of About Recycling
Better for Us an the Environment
2. Coca-Cola will sometimes wash and sanitize a used soda bottle and reuse it (do not worry its perfectly safe)!
3. The process of sorting recyclable items involves, lasers, puffs of air, magnetic fields, filters, and even robots that are specially designed to pick out certain materials.
4. We can power over 50 million homes for twenty 20 years with all the paper and wood, we throw out. If all that were recycled, we could have saved nearly 150 million metric tons of paper.
5. Certain companies will pay you for recycling!
6. We use to have nine different bins for recycling! Now we just have one or two!
7. Recycling an aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television set for 3 hours, probably not a plasma television but it is still a lot.
8. We continue to make new glass, even though recycled glass produces 20% less pollution to make and 60% less energy
9. Only 25% of the plastic bottles we use get recycled.
10. The same paper you read from yesterday's news could make the newspaper you are reading today!
11. According to greenlearning.ca, recycling one tonne of newspaper saves, 19 trees, 3 cubic metres of landfill, 4000-kilowatt hours of energy, 29,000 litres of water and 30 kg of air pollution.
12. By recycling on aluminum can you save enough energy to make 20 other cans!
13. We throw away 90,000 pounds of garbage in our lifetime. Half of that can be recycled!
14. By recycling every single piece of paper we produce, we have save 6 million hectares of forest from being cleared.
15. Certain plastics can be recycled and remade into a park bench.
16. Some people claim that recycling is more harmful to the environment. You have to transport all the waste, and the recycling mills use many machines.
17. Aluminum can tabs (the stuff that you open sodas with) can also be recycled as long as you remove it from the can
18. Recycling was not fully excepted until the 1950
19. 9 out of 10 people said they would recycle if it were easier.
20. Yes, what you put into your recycling bin does actually, get recycled.
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