Is it
worth a little bit of extra effort each day?
Did you know that the U.S. throws away
around 200 million tons of garbage each day?
The average American generates about 4lbs.
of garbage each day.
That is approximately 1,460lbs. per person
per year!
We use enough cardboard each year to make
a bale as big as
a football field and higher than the U.S.'s
tallest skyscrapers.
We throw away enough aluminum every three
months to rebuild our entire commercial air
fleet.
The energy saved from recycling one
aluminum can will run your TV for 3 hours.
Recycling aluminum takes only 5% of the
energy needed to manufacture it from raw material.
When you recycle one glass bottle, you save
the amount
of energy needed to light a 100 watt bulb
for 4 hours.
How long does it take things to break down?
Well, tin takes 100 years, aluminum takes
500 years, and glass takes a million years.
Paper takes up as much as 50 percent of all
landfill space!
The average person in North America uses 250
kg of paper each year.
If they recycled it, each person would save
about 4.6 average-sized trees.
A fifteen year old tree produces only 700
grocery bags.
When 1 ton of newspaper is recycled, 3 cubic
meters of
landfill space is saved and 13 - 17 trees
are spared!
A stack of newspaper, collected for recycling
and
piled one meter high, saves a 10 meter tall
evergreen tree.
If lined up bumper to bumper, a string of
garbage trucks
hauling the nations daily waste could reach
halfway to the moon.
If each one of us does our part to recycle
we can make a HUGE
difference. The Earth that will exist for
our grandchildren
and their grandchildren is in our hands right
now.
~ Happy Earth Day ~
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