Here are some of the amazing and Interesting Facts about Recycling ,hope you guys enjoy it!!
1. Every year nearly 900,000,000 trees are cut down to provide raw materials for American paper and pulp mills.
2. Every year we generate around 14 million tons of food waste which is 106 pounds of food waste per person 570,000 tons of this is composted for a 4.1% recovery rate. The rest, or 13.4 million tons is incinerated or landfilled and occupies 6.3 million cubic yards of landfilled MSW.
3. Americans throw away about 28 billion bottles and jars every year.
4. Americans make more than 200 million tons of garbage each year, enough to fill Bush Stadium from top to bottom twice a day!
5. It takes a 15-year-old tree to produce 700 grocery bags.
6. Disposable diapers last centuries in landfills. An average baby will go through 8,000 of them!
7. Recycling aluminum cans saves 95% of the energy used to make alum cans from new material.
8. Americans throw away 25,000,000 plastic bottles every hour.
9. Over 87% of Americans have access to curbside or drop-off paper recycling programs.
10. In 2009, Americans threw away almost 9 million tons of glass. That could fill enough tractor trailers to stretch from NYC to LA (and back!).
11. In 2010, paper recycling had increased over 89% since 1990.
12. If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we could save about 25 million trees each year.
13. Used condoms were recycled into hair bands in Southern China. They sold quite well, although several physicians voiced concerns about potential hygiene problems.
14. It is more likely that Americans will recycle than vote.
15. In the U.S. alone, 18 billion diapers are thrown out a year.
16. Burying coffins also means that 90,272 tons of steel, 2,700 tons of copper and bronze, and over 30 million feet of hard wood covered in toxic laminates are also buried per year. However, a British company called “Ecopod” offers coffins made from 100% recycled paper.
17. The United States makes up only 4% of the world’s population, yet it is the number one producer of garbage. In 2006, Americans generated more than 250 million tons of garbage.g Canada produces 31 million tons of garbage per year.
18. Modern garbage is a relatively new phenomenon–a result of industrialization, mass production, and consumption.
19. Before the twentieth century, most Americans and Europeans practiced habits of reuse and recycling that prevailed in agricultural communities. For example, in the Middle Ages, tanners would often collect urine to use in tanning animal skins or making gunpowder.
20. Bones were often recycled into common household items such as buttons, glue, and paper
1. Every year nearly 900,000,000 trees are cut down to provide raw materials for American paper and pulp mills.
2. Every year we generate around 14 million tons of food waste which is 106 pounds of food waste per person 570,000 tons of this is composted for a 4.1% recovery rate. The rest, or 13.4 million tons is incinerated or landfilled and occupies 6.3 million cubic yards of landfilled MSW.
3. Americans throw away about 28 billion bottles and jars every year.
4. Americans make more than 200 million tons of garbage each year, enough to fill Bush Stadium from top to bottom twice a day!
5. It takes a 15-year-old tree to produce 700 grocery bags.
6. Disposable diapers last centuries in landfills. An average baby will go through 8,000 of them!
7. Recycling aluminum cans saves 95% of the energy used to make alum cans from new material.
8. Americans throw away 25,000,000 plastic bottles every hour.
9. Over 87% of Americans have access to curbside or drop-off paper recycling programs.
10. In 2009, Americans threw away almost 9 million tons of glass. That could fill enough tractor trailers to stretch from NYC to LA (and back!).
11. In 2010, paper recycling had increased over 89% since 1990.
12. If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we could save about 25 million trees each year.
13. Used condoms were recycled into hair bands in Southern China. They sold quite well, although several physicians voiced concerns about potential hygiene problems.
14. It is more likely that Americans will recycle than vote.
15. In the U.S. alone, 18 billion diapers are thrown out a year.
16. Burying coffins also means that 90,272 tons of steel, 2,700 tons of copper and bronze, and over 30 million feet of hard wood covered in toxic laminates are also buried per year. However, a British company called “Ecopod” offers coffins made from 100% recycled paper.
17. The United States makes up only 4% of the world’s population, yet it is the number one producer of garbage. In 2006, Americans generated more than 250 million tons of garbage.g Canada produces 31 million tons of garbage per year.
18. Modern garbage is a relatively new phenomenon–a result of industrialization, mass production, and consumption.
19. Before the twentieth century, most Americans and Europeans practiced habits of reuse and recycling that prevailed in agricultural communities. For example, in the Middle Ages, tanners would often collect urine to use in tanning animal skins or making gunpowder.
20. Bones were often recycled into common household items such as buttons, glue, and paper
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