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Recycling should be an activity practiced by households, individuals and businesses alike. If you don’t already recycle, here are some fun recycling facts that should help convince you to do so.
Facts about Recycling Metals:
- Nearly 350,000 aluminum cans are produced every minute worldwide. By recycling one aluminum can, enough energy is saved to run a TV for three hours. This is equivalent to using a half gallon of gas.
- Once a can is recycled, it can be formed into a new can withis six weeks.
- There is no limit to the amount of times a aluminum can can be recycled.
- During a one year period in the U.S., the recycling of steel saves enough energy to heat and light 18,000,000 homes.
- The energy saved by recycling one pound of steel can power a 60-watt bulb for over a day.
Facts about Recycling Paper:
- 500,000 trees must be cut down to produce each week’s Sunday newspaper.
- If all newspapers were recycled throughout the year, we would save about 250,000,000 trees per year!
- Roughly 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
- About 27% of all the newspapers in America are recycled.
- The amount of paper and wood thrown away every year is equivalent to the energy needed to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years!
Facts about Recycling Glass
- By recycling one glass bottle, a 100-watt light bulb could run for four hours.
- By not recycling glass, it takes over 4,000 years for it to decompose in a landfill.
Hopefully these recycling facts will help convince you to recycle if you do not already do so!
November 28th, 2007
Although often debated, most scientists will assure you that global warming is occurring on our planet earth. Global warming is a change in climate which has been resulting in higher temperatures. According to NASA, the global overall temperature has increased 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880.
Human activities have increased the number of greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide, in our atmosphere. Global Warming is a result of the burning of fossil fuels (emitting CO2) around the world. Fossil fuels are the main energy source for transportation worldwide. Global warming has caused a decrease in the number of glaciers and snow covered areas which has caused the world’s sea level to rise. Extreme weather patterns will become noticeable, certain species will become extinct and agriculture around the world will be effected if global warming continues at its current rate.
To decrease the rate of global warming, the population of the world as whole needs to begin using less fossil fuels and more alternative fuels such as solar, wind, and hydrogen energy.
November 23rd, 2007
Earth Day Flag
Earth Day is an important day in which the world unites to celebrate environmental progress in protecting our planet. The first Earth Day thought up of by Senator Gaylord Nelson occurred on April 22, 1970. Earth Day 2008 will be the next recognized Earth Day which will occur on March 20, 2008.
Protecting our planet is the main purpose of Earth Day. Visions of improving things like pollution problems are put into action. Since the introduction of Earth Day in 1970 the air quality has improved and restoration of abandoned industrial sites has increased.
November 5th, 2007