Why Recycle?
Have you ever thought about why we should recycle? Maybe the following 5 stats will answer this question for you...
1. In the U.S., 40% of the waste is paper, but only 25-30% of that paper waste is being recycled nationwide.
2. The equivalent of 30 million trees a year are thrown away by Americans. And this is just from newsprint (magazines, newspapers, etc)
3. Recycling one soda can a day can save enough energy to operate your television for 3 hours.
4. A glass bottle thrown away today will still be there in the year 3000.
5. You would be able to make 436 trips around the earth a year, with the amount of Styrofoam cups that are used in the U.S.
It is not too late to start taking an active role in saving the environment. A few simple things can make BIG difference.
And if you tell two friends, and they tell two friends and so on and so on, the difference would be GIGANTIC!
4 comments:
Wow! One soda can can really do all that. I don't know the facts and figures but I do recycle.
Okay, number three blows me away!
We always recycle everything, but I'm still lousy about using plastic bags in stores. I'm trying so hard to use totes, but I always forget to take them into the store with me and I refuse to buy a new one every single time I go in there.
But I am getting there. Slowly.
Thanks for all the tips. :)
Catherine and Danette - #3 was a little mind boggling for me also...and #4, because I drink a Lipton Pure Leaf Black Tea every morning and it is in a glass bottle...sigh...but I just can't give up my tea!
Linda...It took me a little to get use to them also...I had them, but I would go into the store without them, so I would buy another...I probably have 10 of them now, so I stuff them all into one and I keep it in the front seat where I can see them...when I get in the car, I toss my pocket book on top of them, so I rmember them...I also keep one in my pocket book, rolled up with a rubber band around it, so if I go in for something small I have it...We are learning as we go also...
Thanks for reading!
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