Passing this along from our friends at CynerGreen! and CGKidzRECYCLING 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/
ecofab little rock – NOW OPEN http://www.ecofabstore.com/
The Promenade, Chenal
No comments :
Post a Comment