Green Facts I Didn’t Know
by Cecilia Gonzalez, posted on 2009-05-31 22:16:11
I consider myself to be a green citizen of the world, but there were some facts that I did NOT know. As I found out more and more, I realized that I knew I had to recycle and reuse and all of that good stuff. But, what does it all do? What does it all mean?
Pues, chicas, aquí esta la respuesta!
Did you know...
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- Recycling telephone books saves 10% of waste at landfills?
- For every ton of paper that is recycled, the following is saved: 7,000 gallons of water; 380 gallons of oil; and enough electricity to power an average house for six months?
- Recycling one ton of glass saves 10 gallons of oil?
- 1$ out of each $11 that Americans spend on food goes for packaging?
- You can run a TV for three hours on the amount of electricity that is saved by recycling one aluminum can?
- By recycling just one glass bottle, you save enough electricity to power a 100-watt bulb for four hours?
- Making a can out of recycled aluminum takes only 5 percent of the energy needed to make an aluminum can from raw materials?
- Recycling a ton of materials in a typical curbside recycling program results in a net energy savings of $187?
- Steel cans are 100% recyclable?
- When a steel mill uses recycled scrap, it cuts related water pollution and mining wastes by 70%?
- Paper recycling efforts conserve an estimated 200,000 trees each year?
- One person shutting off the tap while they brush their teeth can save up to 5 gallons of water a day?
- Americans go through 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour?
- Plastic bags are made from polyethylene: a thermoplastic made from oil. Reducing our use of plastic bags will decrease our foreign oil dependency?
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