Interesting Recycling Facts
Interesting Recycling Facts
Here are a potporrouri of interesting facts about recycling
for your entertainment and education:
Interesting
Recycling Facts /
Water
- A running faucet wastes 2.5 gallons of water
each minute.
- A dishwasher uses 11 gallons of water per use.
- 75 percent of all water used in the household is used
in the bathroom.
- A toilet made in 1992 or earlier uses up to 60
percent more water per flush than newer high efficiency toilets.
- Turning of the tap while brushing your teeth in the
morning and before bedtimes can save up to 8 gallons per day. This is a
savings of 240 gallons per month.
- Running your faucet for 5 minutes uses up enough
energy to run a 60 watt light bulb for 14 hours.
- A full bath tub uses 70 gallons of water. A 5 minute
shower only uses 10-25 gallons.
Interesting
Recycling Facts /
Paper
- Recycling
1 ton of paper
saves 17 mature trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 3 cubic yards of
landfill space, 2 barrels of oil, and 4000 kilowatt hours of
electricity. This is enough energy to power the average
American home for 5 months.
- The process
of recycling paper instead of making it from new materials
generates 74 percent less air pollution and uses 50 percent less water.
- Manufacturing recycled paper uses 60 percent of the
energy needed to make paper from new materials.
- Over 73 percent of all newspapers are recovered for
recycling. About 33 percent of this is used to make newsprint the rest
is used to make paperboard, tissue, or insulation.
- A little more than 48 percent of all office paper is
recycled. This is used to make writing papers, paperboard, tissue, and
insulation.
Interesting
Recycling Facts /
Metal
- Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74 percent of the energy
used to make them.
- Americans throw away enough aluminum
every month to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
- Americans throw out enough iron and steel to
continuously supply all the auto makers in the entire nation.
- A steel mill using recycled scrap reduces water
pollution, air pollution, and mining waste by about 70 percent.
- When you throw away an aluminum can you waste as much
energy as if you’d filled the can half full of gasoline and poured it
into the ground.
- Americans use 100 million tin and steel cans each day.
- Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run
a 100 watt light bulb for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours, and a TV
for 2 hours.
Interesting
Recycling Facts /
Plastic
- Enough plastic
is produced in the United States each year to shrink wrap Texas.
- In 1998 Americans used 2 billion pounds of HDPE to
make plastic bottles for household products. That’s the equivalent
weight of 90,000 Honda civics.
- Approximately 88 percent of the energy is saved when
plastic is made from plastic rather than from the raw materials of gas
and oil.
- Enough plastic
bottles are thrown away in the United States each
year to circle the Earth four times.
Sources
http://www.zerowasteamerica.org/Statistics.htm
http://www.visy.com.au/
http://earth911.com/
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