15 jaw-dropping facts that will make you want to get up and recyle
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1.
Recycling
ONE TON of paper
saves 682.5 GALLONS of oil,
7,000 GALLONSof water
and 3.3 CUBIC YARDSof landfill space.
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2.
are felled each day to manufacture toilet paper.
27,000 TREES
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3.
95%
of all data in the world is stillstored on paper.
Most of it is NEVER looked at again.
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4.
Recycling aSINGLE plastic bottle can
conserve enough energy to light a 60Wbulb for up to
6 HOURS.
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5.
2.5 MILLIONPER HOUR.
500 YEARS
US citizens throw away
plastic bottles
Each one takes
to decompose.
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6.
of marine creatures
THOUSANDS
die by mistakenly swallowing
JELLYFISH.
PLASTIC BAGSthat resemble
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7.
20 TIMES.
Each year, we throw out enough
to reach the moon and back
SODA CANS & BOTTLES
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8.
Recycling ONE aluminum can savesenough energy to listen to a full
albumon your iPod.
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9.
Recycling
ONE TON OF PLASTICcan save up to2,000
GALLONSGASOLINE.of
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10.
Most of it is
14 BILLION POUNDSof garbage are dumped into the ocean.
Every year,
PLASTIC.
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12.
The average person generates over 4
POUNDSof trash every day
and about 1.5 TONS
of solid
waste per year.
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13.
We generate21.5 MILLION TONSof food waste each year. If we
compostedthat food, it would reduce the sameamount of greenhouse gas as
taking2 MILLION CARSoff the road.
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14.
from a leaky faucet wastes
ONE DRIP ONE SECOND
540 GALLONSof water a year.
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15.
It takes between
400 AND 500 YEARSfor a Styrofoam cup to decompose.
It takes an orange peel
SIX MONTHSto decompose.
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