Monday, November 15, 2010

Celebrate America Recycles Day TODAY!

Passing this along from our friends at CynerGreen!  and CGKidz


RECYCLING FACTS!
Celebrate Monday, November 15, 2010
America Recycles Day
by choosing to make a difference.  (Please pass along)

You can:
  • Find a recycling bin and facts from your local pickup on what is accepted.
  • Think before you Toss.  Almost everything these days can be recycled.
  • Support local efforts to increase recycling rates.
  •  Purchase biodegradable products and remember to REUSE so you reduce the need for Recycling!
  • Go big and eliminate the use of plastic water bottles completely.  Purchase a safe, stainless steel, reusable bottle.

HERE ARE SOME USEFUL STATISTICS.

  • We use 80,000,000,000+ aluminum soda cans a year.

  • If every American recycled just 10% of their newspapers, we would save 25,000,000 trees a year.

  • The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.

  • There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can be recycled.

  • Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.

  • Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away!

  • Mining and transporting raw materials for glass creates about 385 lbs of waste for 1 ton of new glass.

  • Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill a 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!

  • The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees.

  • Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam coffee cups every year.

  • The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours or a CFL for 20 hours. 

  • An estimated 80,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using enough aluminum foil to cover over 50 acres or 40 football fields. All of that foil is recyclable.

  • 100 acres of Rainforests get cut down every minute!

  • A single quart of motor oil can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water.
  •  A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in a landfill!
 Happy Recycling!

Danelle Hoffer
CynerGreen | EcoFab Stores, Inc.
http://www.cynergreen.com/
http://www.cgkidz.com/

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