10 Interesting Facts About Recycling | 10 Interesting Facts

Recycling is one of the most proper actions to slow global warming. Recycling has millions of benefit, environmentally or financially and we can enjoy the benefit not only for ourselves but also for our son or grandson in the future. If you never know or read the benefit of recycling yet here, I am going to give you those facts. This is top 10 interesting fact about recycling .
Aluminum Can fact
1. Fact 1

Without aluminum recycling factory, every aluminum can will be a pollutant for 5 decades. Fortunately, Aluminum recycling processing is economically beneficial. Everyday, aluminum can is recycled to make a new ready to use aluminum can. In 60 days, a used aluminum will be a new aluminum can in 60 days.
2. Fact 2
Aluminum is forever. Every 12 month we are using, wasting, recycling and reuse more than 80,000,000,000 aluminum cans worldwide.
3. Fact 3
Recycling one aluminum can is equal to save energy of 0.5 gallons of gas, electricity to power TV for 2 hours and PC for 3 hours.
4. Fact 4
Aluminum is one of the most profitable materials to be recycled. It is the reason why we rarely seen them on a landfill. According to EPA, only 1% aluminum cans available in landfills in USA
Recycling Paper fact
5. Fact 5

If time suddenly skip 1 day and Sunday New York time does not release their new print for a day, life of 75,000 trees are 1 day longer
- if Sunday News stop selling new newspaper for a week, it means live of half million trees would be mercy for a week
- if everyone who read new newspaper everyday collect all their newspapers they have read for a year and recycled it, that would safe the life of 250,000,000 trees for 365 days.
6. Fact 6
Once we fetched 700 grocery bags and recycled it, we have saved a life of 15 years old trees
7. Fact 7
Americans, totally, have consumed average 85,000,000,000 tons of paper from trees every year.
8. Fact 8
Benefit of recycling one ton of paper is same as saving the life of 17 grown trees, clearing 3 cubic yards landfill space, seven thousand gallons fresh water, the energy of 1438 liters oil, and 250 pounds CO2 to weight atmosphere.
9. Fact 9
US is the 3rd most populous country in the world but American is the biggest trash maker in our planet. one American dump 1,609 pounds of waste in various form yearly. From this data, we could find a fact that 5 percent people in the world have contributed 40 percent of total waste worldwide.
- US’s Largest Landfill is Apex regional Landfill in North Las Vegas. The landfill size is 2,200 acres. Everyday, the landfill received 9,000 tons of garbage a day. The landfill developer estimated that the landfill will be sufficient to accommodate American’s waste in Las Vegas for 20 years.
10. Fact 10

This 10th point is our last recycling facts . Every time we purchase a good in mini market, we waste 1% of money we spent to cover packaging of the product. Every 60 minutes, Americans dump new 2,500,000 bottles. Every 365 days, American dumps 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam cups.

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