RECYCLING FACTS
- 1 recycled tin can would save enough energy to power a television for 3 hours.
- 1 recycled glass bottle would save enough energy to power a computer for 25 minutes.
- 1 recycled plastic bottle would save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for 3 hours.
- 70% less energy is required to recycle paper compared with making it from raw materials.
- Plastic can take up to 500 years to decompose. Glass can easily be recycled but ends up in landfills where it will never decompose.
- The U.S. is one of the world's largest producers of trash at a rate of 1,609 pounds of trash per person, per year. The most abused and wasted natural resource is water.
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