Facts on recycle, रीसायकल पर तथ्य

FACTS ON RECYCLE, रीसायकल पर तथ्य

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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.

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Recycling is a part of waste disposal hierarchy – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

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Aluminium cans can actually be recycled and put back onto the shelf at your local grocery store in just about 2 months.

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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.

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Recycling an aluminium can help to save a great deal of energy, in fact, enough to run your home television for about three hours!

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Most beverage cans are made up of aluminium, even though there are other products that go into it as well.

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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.

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Variety of raw materials including paper, plastic, metal, glass, electronics and textiles can be recycled.

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You can recycle aluminium over and over again, and there is really no limit to it.

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There are over 80 billion aluminium cans used each and every year around the world.

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Aluminium used to be more valuable than gold, many years ago.

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Half a million trees have to be cut down just to produce the Sunday newspapers each week.

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Recycling a single days worth of the New York Times could save 75,000 trees or more.

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Recycling helps to conserve our natural resources like coal, oil and gas.

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If we recycled all newspapers, we could save over 250 million trees each and every year.

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Most people in America all use at least seven trees each year, through wood, paper and other types of products that use trees.

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Each American uses around 680 pounds of paper each year, and most people just throw it away instead of recycling it for further use.

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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!

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Recycling helps to conserve energy and as a result less greenhouse gases are emitted.

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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.

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Plastic bags that are thrown into the ocean kill over a million sea creatures a year.

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Over 60% of the trash that ends in dustbin could be recycled.

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Over 25 trillion Styrofoam coffee cups are thrown away each year, just by Americans!

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Glass jars can be recycled, but there are many that are just thrown away.

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24 trees are cut down to make 1 ton of newspaper.

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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.

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Most dumps are made up of a third of packaging materials that could be recycled.

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Recycled paper produces approximately 70% less air pollution than if it was made from raw materials.

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Each year, there are organic garbage thrown out that could be composted and recycled to use for fertilizer for the ground rather than pollutants.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Most people produce 4.4 pounds of trash per day that results in about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year.

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Plastic bags and garbage that are thrown into the ocean have devastating effect on sea animals.

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Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown in US every year.

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The amount of wood and paper that are thrown each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.

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Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 1,000–2,000 gallons of gasoline.

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Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to power a 100-watt bulb for four hours.

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One drip one second from a leaky faucet wastes 540 gallons of water a year.

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One ton of recycled cardboard saves 9 cubic yards of landfill space.

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The U.S. produces approximately 34 million tons of food waste each year.

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Food scraps make up almost 12% of municipal solid waste generated in the U.S.

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In 2015, about 137.7 million tons of MSW were landfilled. Food was the largest component at about 22%.

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2.5 million plastic bottles are thrown away every hour in America.

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Recycling plastic takes 88% less energy than making it from raw materials.

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Enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the earth four times.

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Only 23% of disposable water bottles are recycled.

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Plastic bags can take up to 1,000 years to decompose.

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Recycling one ton of plastic saves the equivalent of 1,000-2,000 gallons of gasoline.

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Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.

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Styrofoam never decomposes.

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Glass can be recycled and re-manufactured an infinite amount of times and never wear out.

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70% of the total waste in officies in paper waste.

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American business use around 21 million tons of paper- with about 750,000 copies made every minute.

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Recycling a stack of newspaper just 3 feet high saves on tree.

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Aluminum can be recycled forever without any loss of quality.

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Americans throw away 25 billion styroofoam coffee cups every year.

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recycling a single aluminium can saves enough energy to power a TV for 3 hours.

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The EPA estimates that 75% of the American waste stream is recyclable, but we only recycle about 30% of it.

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94% of the U.S. population has access to some type of recycling program.

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Americans generate an additional 5 million tons of waste throughout the holidays.

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Americans throw away enough trash in an average year to circle the earth 24 times.

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Electronic waste totals approximately 2% of the waste stream in the U.S.

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On average, it costs $30 per ton to recycle trash, $50 to send it to the landfill and $65 to $75 to incinerate it.