12 Facts About Recycling

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Current environmental issues more clearly visible in many places, from the global scale such as global warming to local scale such as floods. These issues are very pressing us to care, so that our environment does not become disaster source for our own . One way to care about the environment is by recycling.

Recycling materials can save energy and help us protect the environment. Here is information about recycling and some facts about recycling and what you can do to help save the environment. We can help save our environment by recycling materials such as paper, plastics, rubber, glass, and aluminum cans.

What is Recycling?
Recycling is the process of converting not used products but still useful to the new product; this is done to conserve energy and resource consumption of space used in landfills. You want to know more?

Interesting Facts & Benefits about Recycling

• There is no limit on how many times aluminum can be recycled.
• Newspaper recycling pile 3-foot-high can save one whole tree.
• Rubber shoe soles can be recycled to make basketball courts and soccer field.
• Recycled paper requires about 60% less energy and less water to make than new paper.
• Recycled cans can be made into airplanes, appliances, furniture and more.
• Recycled glass bottles can be made into roads, tiles, even surfboards.
• Recycled plastic bottles can be made into rugs, jackets, fences and more.
• Approximately 60% of our waste disposal today can be recycled.
• A survey conducted and 9 of 10 people surveyed said they would recycle more if more easily.
• The most common products in the recycling program of paper products, cardboard, plastic, glass and aluminum.
• By recycling one plastic bottle, we not only save landfill somewhere around 100 to 1000 years, but also save the environment from the emissions in producing new bottles as well as the oil used to produce the bottle.
• For every ton of plastic recycled, we save the energy equivalent of energy use by two people for one year, the amount of water used by one person within 2 months and almost 2000 pounds of oil.

There are many other things that can be recycled, even at much more expensive than the original item. But of course back to the creativity of the recycler. We have had a lot of people doing the recycling of various items that are not used, in addition to saving the environment, they also can benefit from their activities. Hopefully we can do something to save our environment.