Recycling is a process to create new items from old and used materials. This helps in reducing energy and potentially useful materials from being wasted.
Recycling is a part of waste disposal hierarchy – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Aluminium cans can actually be recycled and put back onto the shelf at your local grocery store in just about 2 months.
Aluminium cans are probably the most recycled item, at least in the United States. While this is true, you can also recycle other forms of aluminium as well.
Recycling an aluminium can help to save a great deal of energy, in fact, enough to run your home television for about three hours!
Most beverage cans are made up of aluminium, even though there are other products that go into it as well.
If you throw away your aluminium cans, they can stay in that can form for up to 500 years or more- so recycling is the way to go.
Variety of raw materials including paper, plastic, metal, glass, electronics and textiles can be recycled.
You can recycle aluminium over and over again, and there is really no limit to it.
There are over 80 billion aluminium cans used each and every year around the world.
Aluminium used to be more valuable than gold, many years ago.
Half a million trees have to be cut down just to produce the Sunday newspapers each week.
Recycling a single days worth of the New York Times could save 75,000 trees or more.
Recycling helps to conserve our natural resources like coal, oil and gas.
If we recycled all newspapers, we could save over 250 million trees each and every year.
Most people in America all use at least seven trees each year, through wood, paper and other types of products that use trees.
Each American uses around 680 pounds of paper each year, and most people just throw it away instead of recycling it for further use.
2000 pounds of recycled paper can actually help to save 17 trees, over 350 gallons of oil, and a lot of landfill space. That also means less air pollution!
Recycling helps to conserve energy and as a result less greenhouse gases are emitted.
Americans will use over 2 and a half million plastic bottles every thirty minutes, and most of them are simply thrown away rather than recycled.
Plastic bags that are thrown into the ocean kill over a million sea creatures a year.
Over 60% of the trash that ends in dustbin could be recycled.
Over 25 trillion Styrofoam coffee cups are thrown away each year, just by Americans!
Glass jars can be recycled, but there are many that are just thrown away.
24 trees are cut down to make 1 ton of newspaper.
A modern glass bottle could take over 4000 years to actually decompose, and if it is in the landfill then it will probably take even longer than that.
Most dumps are made up of a third of packaging materials that could be recycled.
Recycled paper produces approximately 70% less air pollution than if it was made from raw materials.
Each year, there are organic garbage thrown out that could be composted and recycled to use for fertilizer for the ground rather than pollutants.
Glass is 100% recyclable and can be used again and again. Glass recycling is separated into colors because glass retains its color even after recycling.
The most thrown away products in American include diapers, pens, razor blades, tires and aluminium- all of which can be used to be recycled into other products.
Due to the fact that people aren’t recycling as much as they should, the rainforests are actually be cut down by about 100 acres a minute.
Most people produce 4.4 pounds of trash per day that results in about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year.
Plastic bags and garbage that are thrown into the ocean have devastating effect on sea animals.
Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown in US every year.
The amount of wood and paper that are thrown each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 1,000–2,000 gallons of gasoline.
Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to power a 100-watt bulb for four hours.
One drip one second from a leaky faucet wastes 540 gallons of water a year.
One ton of recycled cardboard saves 9 cubic yards of landfill space.
The U.S. produces approximately 34 million tons of food waste each year.
Food scraps make up almost 12% of municipal solid waste generated in the U.S.
In 2015, about 137.7 million tons of MSW were landfilled. Food was the largest component at about 22%.
2.5 million plastic bottles are thrown away every hour in America.
Recycling plastic takes 88% less energy than making it from raw materials.
Enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the earth four times.
Only 23% of disposable water bottles are recycled.
Plastic bags can take up to 1,000 years to decompose.
Recycling one ton of plastic saves the equivalent of 1,000-2,000 gallons of gasoline.
Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.
Styrofoam never decomposes.
Glass can be recycled and re-manufactured an infinite amount of times and never wear out.
70% of the total waste in officies in paper waste.
American business use around 21 million tons of paper- with about 750,000 copies made every minute.
Recycling a stack of newspaper just 3 feet high saves on tree.
Aluminum can be recycled forever without any loss of quality.
Americans throw away 25 billion styroofoam coffee cups every year.
recycling a single aluminium can saves enough energy to power a TV for 3 hours.
The EPA estimates that 75% of the American waste stream is recyclable, but we only recycle about 30% of it.
94% of the U.S. population has access to some type of recycling program.
Americans generate an additional 5 million tons of waste throughout the holidays.
Americans throw away enough trash in an average year to circle the earth 24 times.
Electronic waste totals approximately 2% of the waste stream in the U.S.
On average, it costs $30 per ton to recycle trash, $50 to send it to the landfill and $65 to $75 to incinerate it.