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Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away! |
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Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year! |
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Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator. |
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Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam coffee cups every year. |
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Glass Recycling Facts |
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Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. All of these jars are recyclable! |
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The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials. |
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A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill. |
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Mining and transporting raw materials for glass produces about 385 pounds of waste for every ton of glass that is made. If recycled glass is substituted for half of the raw materials, the waste is cut by more than 80%. |
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These recycling facts have been compiled from various sources including the National Recycling Coalition, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Earth911.org. While I make every effort to provide accurate information, I make no warranty or guarantee that the facts presented here are exact. We welcome all polite corrections to our information.
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