Today as on every Sunday third week of the month, I send my recyclable materials to the SS2 recycling collection point. Here one can see many selfless volunteers who sacrifice their precious Sunday, receiving and sorting out the various types of recyclables, ranging from old newspapers, old clothes, bottles, alluminium cans to computers.
Many of us feel that environmental problems are beyond our control. Of course problems such as global warming, hazardous waste, loss of rain forests require government and global intervention. But there are some things we as individuals can do. Our waste reduction and recycling efforts can make a difference.
Do you know?
- Recycling a 4-foot stack of newspaper produces as much paper pulp as a 40-foot pine tree.
- Recycling your daily newspaper for one year would provide the pulp equivalent of 2/3 acre of commercial forest.
- Recycling one ton of newspaper saves 17 pine trees.
- Recycling just one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours.
- Manufacturing cans from recycled aluminum produces 96% less air and water pollution than manufacturing cans from raw material (bauxite).
- More than half of all garbage produced by a household can be recycled.
- Plastics are made from petroleum, which is a limited, non-renewable resource. 5 recycled two-liter plastic bottles make enough fiberfill for a ski jacket.
- Each pound of aluminum recycled eliminates the need to mine 4 pounds of bauxite ore - another of our valuable natural resources.
- For every pound of steel that is recycled, enough energy is saved to light a 60-watt light bulb for over a day.
- Tin and steel are sold to manufacturers who produce bicycles, automobiles, refrigerators, steel beams for construction and other materials.
- Making new glass from recycled glass uses 32% less of the energy needed to make glass from raw materials.
- Using recycled glass to make new glass cuts related air pollution by about 20%.
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