Thursday, October 8, 2009

Facts about Recycling


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An estimated 80,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using enough aluminum foil to cover over 50 acres of space -- that's almost 40 football fields. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.
Bullet Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute!
Bullet A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water.
Bullet Motor oil never wears out, it just gets dirty. Oil can be recycled, re-refined and used again, reducing our reliance on imported oil.
Bullet On average, each one of us produces 4.4 pounds of solid waste each day. This adds up to almost a ton of trash per person, per year.
Bullet A typical family consumes 182 gallons of soda, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That's a lot of containers -- make sure they're recycled!

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