Recycling 101

Recycling is more than helping the environment, it's getting money back in your pocket.

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Recycling 101

Hunter Beaubien

ms. eddy

ALCB2 - Hr 3

18 May 2011

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Recycling Fun Facts :)

Aluminum:

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours!
350,000 aluminum cans are produced every minute!
More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product.
Once an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part of a new can within six weeks.
During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.
There is no limit to the amount of times aluminum cans can be recycled.
We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year.
At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold?

Paper:

To produce each week's Sunday newspaper, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
During World War II when raw materials were scarce, 33% of all paper was recycled. After the war, this number decreased sharply.
Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year: about 680 pounds per person.
In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space.
In 1993, nearly 36,000,000 tons of paper in the U.S.-twice as much in 1980.
27% of the newspapers produced in America are recycled.

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