RECYCLING
The following website provides tips and advice on how to recycle almost anything!
http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/
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11 RECYCLING FACTS FOR 2011
 | 1) 1 recycled tin can would save enough energy to power a television for 3 hours. 2) 70% less energy is required to recycle paper compared with making it from raw materials and it produces 73% less air pollution. 3) Up to 80% of a vehicle can be recycled. 4) £36,000,000 worth of aluminium is thrown away each year. 5) It takes 24 trees to make 1 ton of newspaper. 6) Plastic can take up to 500 years to decompose. 7) The amount of recycling in 2007 saved the energy equivalent of 10.7 billion gallons of gasoline and prevented the release of carbon dioxide of approximately 35 million cars. 8) Each ton of mixed paper that is recycled can save the energy equivalent to 185 gallons of gasoline 9) Each ton of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 KW of energy and 7000 gallons of water. 10) Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years. 11) In 2007, 254 million tons of waste was produced. Of that, 85 million tons was either recycled or composted. Sites: http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/facts.html http://recyclingfacts.org/ http://www.uk-energy-saving.com/recycling_facts.html http://www.ehow.com/facts_4963127_facts-reusing-recycling.html |
