| Recycle |
| The term recycle is now used in conjunction with reduce and renew. |
| Plastic Recycling - Stop The Confusion |
| There are seven distinct types of plastics that can be recycled. These numbers can be found, usually on the bottom of the container. They are located inside the recycle sign (a triangle of arrows) and are listed with a number 1 through 7.
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| TOOTHBRUSHES? Over 50 million pounds of toothbrushes are put into our landfills every year. This can be eliminated. Toothbrushes are recyclable, they belong to the #5 group of plastics. You can send them back to the original company if your recycling center does not accept this type of plastic. Other companies are getting into the game. One is making replacable heads and another is creating them out of natural resources. |
| 24 tons of steel recycled from the World Trade Center has been used to create the new Navy ship, USS New York. |
METALS
* Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half
a gallon of gasoline.
* 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.
* Because so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste
stream, according to EPA estimates.
* During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.
* An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!
* There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can can be recycled.
* Aluminum can manufacturers have been making cans lighter -- in 1972 each pound of aluminum
produced 22 cans; today it yields 29 cans.
* We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year.
* At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold!
* A 60-watt light bulb can be run for over a day on the amount of energy saved by recycling 1 pound of steel.
In one year in the United States, the recycling of steel saves enough energy to heat and light 18,000,000
homes!
* Every ton of recycled steel saves 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,000 of coal, and 40 pounds of limestone.
PLASTIC / STYROFOAM
* Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away!
* Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures
every year!
* Americans throw away 25,000,000 plastic beverage bottles every hour!
* Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as buring it in an incinerator.
* American throw away 25,000,000,000 styrofoam coffee cups every year.
GLASS
* Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. All of these jars are
recyclable!
* The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. It also
causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw
materials.
* A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill.
* Mining and transporting raw materials for glass produces about 385 pounds of waste for every ton of
glass that is made. If recycled glass is substituted for half of the raw materials, the waste is cut by more
than 80%.
TRASH / LANDFILLS
* Although 75% of our trash can be recycled, the EPA set a national goal of 25% for 1992.
* The first real recycling program was introduced in New York City in the 1890s. The city's first recycling
plant was built in 1898.
* By 1924, 83% of American cities were separating some trash items to be reused.
* About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material!
* Every year, each American throws out about 1,200 pounds of organic garbage that can be composted.
* New Jersey has the highest recycling rate of all the states--56%!
* The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means
that 5% of the world's people generate 40% of the world's waste.
Provided by: http://members.aol.com/Ramola15/recyclingrules2.html
* Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half
a gallon of gasoline.
* 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.
* Because so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste
stream, according to EPA estimates.
* During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.
* An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!
* There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can can be recycled.
* Aluminum can manufacturers have been making cans lighter -- in 1972 each pound of aluminum
produced 22 cans; today it yields 29 cans.
* We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year.
* At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold!
* A 60-watt light bulb can be run for over a day on the amount of energy saved by recycling 1 pound of steel.
In one year in the United States, the recycling of steel saves enough energy to heat and light 18,000,000
homes!
* Every ton of recycled steel saves 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,000 of coal, and 40 pounds of limestone.
PLASTIC / STYROFOAM
* Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away!
* Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures
every year!
* Americans throw away 25,000,000 plastic beverage bottles every hour!
* Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as buring it in an incinerator.
* American throw away 25,000,000,000 styrofoam coffee cups every year.
GLASS
* Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. All of these jars are
recyclable!
* The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. It also
causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw
materials.
* A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill.
* Mining and transporting raw materials for glass produces about 385 pounds of waste for every ton of
glass that is made. If recycled glass is substituted for half of the raw materials, the waste is cut by more
than 80%.
TRASH / LANDFILLS
* Although 75% of our trash can be recycled, the EPA set a national goal of 25% for 1992.
* The first real recycling program was introduced in New York City in the 1890s. The city's first recycling
plant was built in 1898.
* By 1924, 83% of American cities were separating some trash items to be reused.
* About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material!
* Every year, each American throws out about 1,200 pounds of organic garbage that can be composted.
* New Jersey has the highest recycling rate of all the states--56%!
* The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means
that 5% of the world's people generate 40% of the world's waste.
Provided by: http://members.aol.com/Ramola15/recyclingrules2.html
PAPER
* To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
*Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
* If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
* If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.
* During World War II when raw materials were scarce, 33% of all paper was recycled. After the war, this
number decreased sharply.
* If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them. A
supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket goes through
60,500,000 paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are in the U.S.!!!
* The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This
amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!
* To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
*Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
* If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
* If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.
* During World War II when raw materials were scarce, 33% of all paper was recycled. After the war, this
number decreased sharply.
* If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them. A
supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket goes through
60,500,000 paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are in the U.S.!!!
* The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This
amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!
* When you smell a dump, what you're actually smelling is the paper in
the dump!
* Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every
year in the U.S.
* Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds
per person.
* The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of
paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.
* 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 were recovered in the
U.S.--twice as much in 1980.
* 27% of the newspapers produced in America are recycled.
* Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees and 7,000 gallons of water
* The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of
carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of paper
would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide.
* The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper
is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.
the dump!
* Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every
year in the U.S.
* Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds
per person.
* The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of
paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.
* 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 were recovered in the
U.S.--twice as much in 1980.
* 27% of the newspapers produced in America are recycled.
* Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees and 7,000 gallons of water
* The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of
carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of paper
would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide.
* The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper
is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.
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| RECYCLE ELECTRONIC? "e-cycling" for "e-waste" Electronics can contain chromium, cadmium, mercury, beryllium, nickel, zinc, and brominated flame retardants. When electronics are not disposed of or recycled properly, these toxic materials can present problems, such as that may leak into the soil and ground water when disposed of in landfills. Extending the life of your electronics or donating your most up-to-date and working electronics can save you money and saves valuable resources. Safely recycling outdated electronics can promote the safe management of hazardous components and supports the recovery and reuse of valuable materials. |
| If You Do Purchase A CD - Recycle It Discs only Choose a small location in your home, perhaps a home office or the basement. Place a small envelope or box there, and write on it “Recycle Compact Discs Here”. Simply take a few minutes, check your car, and other areas of your house for old, scratched, used, or unwanted discs. Place all the discs into the box. Mark the box “CDs / DVDs / HD-DVD / Blu-ray Discs only” Cases If you have plastic cases such as a jewel case, or a slim case, please see if you can reuse them, or keep them for future use with perhaps another new disc. If broken or cracked, please collect in a separate box, other than the disc box. We accept all standard CD packages, cases and sleeves. If your CD case is a carboard and plastic combination, such as a DigiPak or similar, please tear off the plastic part and place it in this box, but see below in regards to the paper. Mark the box “cases only” Inserts, Covers, Paperwork If you have covers, inserts, manuals or any other paper or paper board product that accompanies your compact disc, Please collect in a separate box. Please write on it “CD paperwork here” Mark the box “paper only” When your boxes or envelopes are full, please send to: The Compact Disc Recycling Center of America 68H Stiles Road Salem, NH 03079 Yes, the shipping may cost you a small amount, but although you may not realize it, you’ll be generating less trash, which you would have to pay to dispose of anyway. Less trash = less weight = less pickups which hopefully means fewer and cheaper trash pick ups. |
| Download new music instead of buying it on CDs. The "jewel cases" that CDs come in are usually made from polyvinyl chloride, a dangerous material that cannot readily be recycled. Downloading will also help cut down on the production costs and energy used to create the discs themselves. And many record labels are making those clever liner notes available online. |