Less Wasteful

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

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