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- The average family throws away 6 trees worth of paper
- It takes the same amount of energy to make one new can as it does to make 20 recycled cans
- From the diagram: Mexico and Turkey are the countries who disposes of their waste primarily through landfills! Japan is the country that does the most composting!
- The most common type of waste:
- Paper and cardboard
- Organic material
- Textiles
- Plastic
- Metals
- Glass
- Every ton of paper recycled saves:
- 7 trees
- 276 pounds of sulfur
- 350 pounds of limestone
- 9,000 pounds of steam
- 60,000 gallons of water
- 3.3 cubic yard of landfill space
- In the United States, the amount of trash produced is at a rate of 1.609 pounds per person per year
- If all our newspapers were recycled, we could save about 250 million trees each year!!!
- How long does it take to decompose?
- Aluminum can- 80 years
- Glass bottle- 500 years
- Soda bottle- 700 years
- Styrofoam- NEVER
- The amount of aluminum Americans throw away each year is enough to provide the auto industry with all the material it needs to build a year's worth of new cars!
- The energy saved from recycling one bottle will power a 60 watt light bulb for 6 hours!
- Steel cans are recycled in just 6 weeks, aluminum cans in only one month!
- The average household wastes enough energy weekly to power a TV for 2 years!
- Used plastic dumped into the sea kills and destroys sea life at an estimated 1,000,000 sea creatures per year!
- Recyclign creates 4 jobs for every 1 job created in the waste management and disposal industries
- Recycling creates 1.1 million US jobs:
- $238 billion in gross annual sales
- $37 billion in annual payrolls
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