 Earth Day is April 22
Take small
steps to help the earth. Check out this link
for more activities around Earth Day 2008 >>
Pick and area below and begin
recycling. Drop off recyclables is at Kansas
Ave. & Poplar
St., in the Farmers’ Market parking lot
or 13600 S. Alden St.; near 135th St. & Black
Bob Rd., in the NE corner of the Wal-Mart parking
lot. Check out what they take here >>
about small actionable ways you can give back
to the environment.
FACTS:
— In
a lifetime, the average American will throw
away 600 times his or her adult weight in garbage.
This means that each adult will leave a legacy
of as much as 100,000 pounds of trash for his
or her children.
— Each person
generates about 4.5 pounds of waste per day.
Paper:
— Each
ton of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380
gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill
space, 4,000 kilowatts of energy and 7,000 gallons
of water.
— Paper products make
up approximately 40 percent of our trash.
—
Paper products use up at least 35 percent of
the world's annual commercial wood harvest.
Aluminum cans:
— An aluminum can
is unique in that in 60 days it is recycled,
turned into a new can and back on a store shelf.
Making new aluminum cans from used cans takes
95 percent less energy.
— Recycling one aluminum
can saves enough energy to keep a 100-watt bulb
burning for almost four hours or run your television
for three hours.
—
Tossing away an aluminum can wastes as much
energy as pouring out half of that can's volume
of gasoline.
Plastic bottles:
— Recycling a single
plastic bottle can conserve enough energy to
light a 60W bulb for up to six hours.
— It takes about 450
years for one plastic bottle to break down in
the ground. Recycling one ton of soda and water
bottles saves 7.4 cubic yards of landfill space.
—
It takes about 25 recycled plastic drinks bottles
to make one fleece jacket.
Glass containers:
— Every glass bottle
recycled saves enough energy to light a 100 watt
light bulb for four hours.
— Glass never wears
out -- it can be recycled forever. We save over
one ton of resources for every ton of glass recycled
-- 1,330 pounds of sand, 433 pounds of soda ash,
433 pounds of limestone and 151 pounds of feldspar.
—
Recycled glass generates 20% less air pollution
and 50% less water pollution.
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