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Recycling Facts To Make You Go Green: (Did you know?)

If you’re going to ask people to change their lifestyle and create new habits, then you better be willing to back up the reasons with solid facts.

If we could all go even just a little beyond the blue bin, by reducing and reusing, it could make an enormous difference on the planet’s waste. The following is a short list of astonishing recycling facts that are sure to nudge you in the direction of going green. It can’t be stressed enough how even the smallest efforts can make a huge difference, as you’ll see with some of the examples below:

1) Metal:

• If it takes you 45 seconds to read this recycling fact, then by the time you are done, there will have been over a quarter of a million aluminum cans produced before you were done.

• If you drink a can of beer after work and then tossed it in the recycling bin, that one (aluminum) can saves enough energy to watch television for 3 hours after dinner! Of course, you’d save even more energy if you went out for a walk or read a good (used!) book after dinner.

• There are over 80 billion soda cans used each year. Yes, that’s billion. Yes, that’s just soda! can you see the importance of recycling aluminum?

• The good thing about recycling aluminum is that it can be recycled an unlimited amount of times, and a recycled can, even 200 years from now, can still be a can. Yes, it can!

2) Paper:

• If everyone read just their Sunday paper online for now on and there were no paper versions, 500,000 trees would be saved per week!

• If every single newspaper was recycled after we read them, we would be able to save 25 million trees per year!

• If we were to save all the wood and paper that we toss into the trash each year, the combined amount would be enough to heat 50 million homes for up to 20 years.

3) Glass

• Using a similar example as the single aluminum can above, did you know that recycling just one glass bottle can run one of your 100 watt light bulbs for 3-4 hours.

• When a glass bottle is recycled, it is considerably cutting back on the air and water pollution that happens when creating the bottle from raw materials.

• If we were to wait for a glass bottle to decompose after throwing it away today, we would have to wait approximately 4000 years.

• There are approximately 41 billion glass containers manufactured every year.

• Like aluminum, glass can be reused an unlimited amount of times.

{Some Simple Tips To Help You Start Recycling}

Recycling is a great way to reduce the amount of waste you produce, but there are a lot of easy things you can do to avoid creating waste at all. While it is not always possible to eliminate waste entirely there are certain actions you can take to substantially reduce your non-recyclable waste:

Tips with the * next to them can also save money too:

• * Put your lunch, leftovers and other things in reusable plastic containers instead of using plastic bags
• * Use washable cloth dish towels and napkins instead of paper towels and napkins
• * Use disposable shopping bags as trash liners or tote bags
• When shopping, use canvas shopping bags instead of plastic ones. If you can’t use canvas bags, choose paper over plastic – it’s recyclable in the mixed paper bin
• Compost your kitchen scraps, yard trimming, dead leaves and other organic waste and create a wonderful amendment for your garden
• * Purchase several reusable water bottles and keep them filled with water and in the refrigerator. You’ll avoid buying so much bottle water and reduce your waste
• Donate unwanted clothing to Goodwill or a similar charity
• Donate unwanted household items such as furniture, decorations, and other things to Habitat for Humanity
• * Taking care of lawn and recreational equipment by properly storing and maintaining it will save money and create less waste
• * Purchase items with less packaging, such as “economy-sized” products will be cheaper and have a lower packaging to product ratio

Close the loop by purchasing products made from recycled material ♥