| In certain forums, recycling is belittled as a fool's | | | | organisms, which we eat - the plastic we heedlessly |
| errand and a meaningless gesture to the | | | | threw away has resurfaced by way of the food |
| environment. Of course, the cabals who challenge the | | | | chain to afflict us all. |
| importance of recycling are also the same people, in | | | | Recycling facts about paper |
| general, who became fat from doing business with | | | | Due mainly to the Computer Age, old-style dailies are |
| palpable disregard for the environment. Just what is | | | | now using less paper to print their daily issues. As |
| recycling and how important is it to the planet and to | | | | progressively more people go to the internet to read |
| all of us? Let's consider some important recycling | | | | the news, old names like The Washington Post and |
| facts, after we are clear about the meaning of | | | | The San Francisco Chronicle are now forced to |
| recycling. | | | | publish online sites or risk becoming inconsequential. |
| "Recycling involves processing used materials into | | | | To produce a weekend issue of every newspaper in |
| new products to prevent waste of potentially useful | | | | America, 500 thousand trees were chopped down |
| materials." | | | | for their pulp to produce all that paper. In America, |
| Recycling is absolutely needed to help preserve our | | | | 85,000,000 tons of paper are used every year - |
| environment. It functions to decrease the emission of | | | | that's about 680 lbs. for every man, woman, and child |
| toxic fumes by moderating the pile of trash | | | | in this country. |
| incinerated and by moderating petroleum being utilized | | | | If we reuse just one out of ten of the newspapers |
| to extract new materials. In fact, it lessens the need | | | | we read and discard afterward, we'd prevent the |
| for raw materials as old ones are re-utilized for | | | | cutting of 25 million trees annually. The best move, |
| production. | | | | nix all subscriptions NOW or subscribe via RSS solely |
| Recycling facts about plastic | | | | to the online edition of your favorite daily. |
| Plastic, a product of our modern profligate way of | | | | Recycling facts about metal |
| life, was hitherto praised as a revolutionary discovery | | | | Are you aware of the YouTube film showing |
| - it even garnered an award in the World's Fair in | | | | aluminum cans? It's amazing how we waste this |
| London in 1862. It's long lasting, light, and | | | | useful metal by not recycling. The number of |
| transformable. Lamentably, over the years, it is this | | | | aluminum material we discard annually is said to be |
| very strength of plastic that has surfaced to be an | | | | enough to remake all the commercial aircraft in |
| ecological fiasco for us. A hunk of plastic cast off | | | | America three times over! |
| today takes centuries to decompose, it will persist | | | | Every year, Americans require about 80 billion pieces |
| for at least 500 years before dissolution. | | | | of aluminum soda cans, and a large part of these are |
| All plastics can be reused, it's perplexing why most of | | | | thrown away in our landfills. |
| us don't recycle. An encouraging technology has been | | | | Turning in a single aluminum soda container is equal to |
| announced just a few weeks ago that could lend | | | | storing electricity that's enough to run a 100-watt |
| more motivation for us to recycle plastic waste. A | | | | bulb for 20 hours, run your computer for 3 hours, or |
| company in Washington, D.C. called Envion, has | | | | view the Jonas brothers on TV for three hours. |
| recently announced the opening of its new recycling | | | | There are those who suggest that recycling at this |
| facility that could take in all types of plastic trash and | | | | time is both expensive and futile. These people |
| turn these into fuel. Hopefully, this will perform as | | | | propose that we deposit all waste material in landfills |
| billed - it could prove to be the answer to the earth's | | | | now and sit tight for technology to surface that |
| plastic waste debacle. | | | | would make it more systematic and economical to |
| We use and discard 2.5 million plastic bottles every | | | | dig up landfills and clean up the oceans for all the piled |
| hour! Recycling just 26 of these bottles is enough to | | | | up garbage, and recycle these into new products for |
| produce one polyester suit! | | | | us. I certainly look forward to that day, but in the |
| Lately, many news outlets and celebrities have been | | | | meantime, we have to confront waste, short supply |
| discussing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's | | | | of materials, warming gases, and inadequate dump |
| estimated to be double the size of Texas and | | | | sites. It's our world - no one else will take care of it, |
| contains as much as 100 million tons of plastic waste. | | | | there's just us. Let's recycle today, and educate |
| Through a process known as photodegradation, the | | | | ourselves about recycling facts in our libraries and on |
| plastic in the patch is breaking down into shrapnel-like | | | | the web. |
| pieces and are ingested by fish and other sea | | | | |