America and Recycling

This is crazy how much America wastes each year, but even crazzier is how much of it could be recycled. 35% of trash is recycled paper, probably the most easily recycled material. It just goes to show that if people were a little less lazy and walked a few extra steps, so much could be recycled. 

Pretty crazy huh, JB

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Waste Facts

Waste facts

  • It takes just 25 two litre plastic pop bottles to make one adult size fleece jacket.
  • Every week each one of us throws away 8kg of rubbish
  • Each one of use throws away on average nearly seven times our body weight in rubbish each year
  • Every plastic bottle recycled saves enough energy to power a 60 watt bulb for six hours
  • Recycling aluminium cans saves 95% of the energy used to produce them originally
  • Producing steel from recycled materials saves 75% of the energy used to produce it from raw materials
  • Two days issue of a typical tabloid newspaper would create a pile higher then Mount Everest
  • Recycling paper uses 28% less energy than producing virgin paper and uses a lot less water
  • Each UK household uses 600 food and drink cans each year, all of which can be recycled many times
  • Five million steel cans are recycled every day in the UK.
  • Every 90 minutes we all produce enough rubbish to fill the local swimming pool

This Post is From http://www.eaststaffsbc.gov.uk/index.php?fuseaction=services.servicedetails&id=284

                   ~~JA

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