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Recycling one ton of paper saves 682.5 gallons of oil, 7,000 gallons of water and 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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27,000 trees are felled each day for toilet paper.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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95% of all data in the world is still stored on paper. Most of it is never looked at again.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Recycling a single plastic bottle can conserve enough energy to light a 60W bulb for up to 6 hours.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles per hour. Each one takes 500 years to decompose.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Thousands of marine creatures die by mistakenly swallowing plastic bags that resemble jellyfish.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Each year, Americans throw out enough soda cans and bottles to reach the moon and back 20 times.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to listen to a full album on your iPod.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 2,000 gallons of gasoline.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Starting 2015, all New York residents must recycle their old electronics like PCs and TVs, or face a US$100 fine.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for 2 hours.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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14 billion pounds (6B Kg.) of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year. Most of it is plastic.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Recycling one ton of paper saves 17 trees.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In Finland, 9 out of 10 plastic bottles are returned for recycling and almost 100% of glass bottles are also recycled.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Recycling aluminium saves 95% of the energy cost of processing new aluminium.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Liposuctioned human fat can be recycled as fuel.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Recycling can take an aluminum can back on a grocery store shelf within 60 days.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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If the U.S. can raise its 34.5% recycling rate to 75%, it will be the CO2 equivalent of removing 50 million cars from the road.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The "Doggone Project" in Germany works recycling deceased pets into fertilizer.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Goldfish don't have stomachs and should therefore be fed easily digestible food in lots of small feeding sessions.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The CIA burns classified documents to heat their water.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The money saved through recycling depends on the efficiency of the recycling program. For instance, Virgin plastic resin costs 40% less than recycled resin.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Paper recycling was first recorded in 1031, when Japanese shops sold repulped paper.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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90%of plastic bags in the U.S. are not recycled.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Takeout coffee cups are not recyclable and billions are wasted every year.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Only 14% of plastic packaging is collected for recycling globally, which means a great deal of pollution and loss of value.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
