Facts about recycling

Facts related to recycling are as follow :

1. Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 mature trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 2 barrels of oil, and 4000 kilowatt hours of electricity.  This is enough energy to power the average American home for 5 months.
2. Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74 percent of the energyused to make them.
3. Manufacturing recycled paper uses 60 percent of the energy needed to make paper from new materials.
4. Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74 percent of the energyused to make them.
5. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a 100 watt light bulb for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours, and a TV for 2 hours.
6. Approximately 88 percent of the energy is saved when plastic is made from plastic rather than from the raw materials of gas and oil.
7. Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year.
8. Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year. Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.
9. The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours or a compact fluorescent bulb for 20 hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials.
10. 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.