Did you know that recycling one aluminium can saves enough electricity to listen to a full albumn on your Ipod. Recycling a 100 cans could light your bedroom for two whole weeks. Recycling cans is a good energy reducer – in fact, it saves 95% of the energy used to make new cans from scratch.
Did you know that a typical baby uses 10 000 nappies in his or her early life. This means that each year around 16 trillion disposable nappies end up in landfills, and they take centuries to decompose.
Did you know that reusing grocery bags is a great way to help the environment. A plastic bag takes about 400 years to break down.
Did you know that it takes a 15 year old tree to produce 700 paper bags.
Did you know that glass is 100% recyclable and can be used over and over again. Glass that is thrown away, however, never decomposes.
Did you know that more than 30 million trees are cut down to produce a year’s supply of newspapers. In fact recycling one run of the Sunday New York Times could save 75 000 trees. Recycling newspaper is also good for business – for every 15 000 tons recycled annually, 30 jobs are created to collect it and 40 to process it.
Did you know that one ink cartridge takes a 1 000 years to biodegrade – thus a good idea to use refillable ink cartridges.
Did you know that nearly 50 million tons of e-waste (computers and cell phones) is created each year around the world. This is enough to fill a line of rubbish trucks across half the globe.
Did you know that this is the length of time each of the following take to decompose:
Cigarette butt and filter – 12 years
Aluminium can – 200 years
Plastic – 500 years
Styrofoam cup – more than 5 000 years
Glass bottle – estimated at one million years
RECYCLING IS VITAL FOR THE HEALTH OF OUR PLANET
