10 Interesting Facts About Recycling | 10 Interesting Facts

Each day, there are trashes thrown in a different country. Without knowing, people don’t care what they throw and how to recycle those trashes. While actually, the trashes we’ve thrown can be used for another necessity by recycling. Those people who don’t care about recycling are those who don’t care about the world. Here are 10 interesting facts about recycling to make you aware about the world condition.

1. People around the country use 1000 pounds of paper each year – 850 million tons of wood could be saved each year if all that paper was recycled.

2. People in America use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.

3. A typical family (father, mother and a child) consumes 182 gallons of soda, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That’s a lot of containers that can all be recycled.

4. About 80% what we throw can be recycled including paper, bottle and plastic bag.

5. Every month people around the country throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper, but all of these jars are recyclable!

6. Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures a year. Ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? It’s twice the size of Texas and is floating somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. It’s also 80 percent plastic, and weighs in at 3.5 million tons.

7. Recycling one ton (about 2,000 pounds) of paper saves 17 trees, two barrels of oil (enough to run the average car for 1,260 miles), 4,100 kilowatts of energy (enough power for the average home for six months), 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60 pounds of pollution.

8. The 17 trees saved by recycling one ton of paper can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the air each year.

9. If all of our newspapers were recycled, we could save about 250 million trees each year. If everyone recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we could save about 25 million trees each year.

10. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours. In spite of this, Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial fleet of airplanes every three months.

If you do really care about world, let’s recycle our trash by the simplest things you’ve ever imagined. These 10 interesting facts about recycling can save our world from disaster.

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