We all Benefit!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
It’s time for all of us to join in and Recycle. Recycling benefits us all in some way. It reduces pollution, saves landfill space, creates jobs, and can save you money…….. By choosing to recycle, you are improving your environment today. You are helping to ensure that future generations have clean air to breathe, water to drink and more land for parks and playgrounds (by reducing the need for landfills). Here are some interesting facts.
• Recycling just one aluminum can saves enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for 3.5 hours (Source: DEP). • Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet………. • • Americans discard enough glass containers to fill the 1,350-foot twin towers of New York’s WorldTradeCenter every two weeks! • You can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one new can. • Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates 1 job, land filling the same amount creates 6 jobs, recycling the same 10,000 tons creates 36 jobs. • Everyday Americans buy 62 million newspapers and throw out 44 million. That’s the equivalent of dumping 500,000 trees into a landfill every week. • American’s throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall 12 feet high stretching from Los Angeles to New York City…………… • One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year. • It takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday Edition of the New York Times. • One ton of recycled paper uses 64% less energy and 50% less water, creates 74% less air pollution, saves 17 trees, and creates five times more jobs than one ton of paper products from virgin wood pulp. Now that makes you want to recycle!
