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Plastic Water Bottles Impose Health and Environmental Risks Considering that approximately 60 million plastic water bottles are used every day in the US, we can assume that nearly 18,834,000,000 end up in the landfill each year. Each bottle can take up to 700 years to decompose. The landfill issue, however, is not limited to plastic bottles. According to recycleacrossamerica.org, more than 28 billion glass bottles and jars also end up in landfills each year.
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- Recycling of specific materials has grown even more drastically: 42% of all paper, 40% of all plastic soft drink bottles, 55% of all aluminium beer and soft drink cans, 57% of all steel packaging, and 52% of all major appliances are now recycled. Twenty years ago, only one roadside recycling programme existed in the US.
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- Stack the nearly 19 billion steel cans recycled in 1996 end to end, and you would have a line stretching from here to the moon and back more than three times (based on a can height of 5 inches). Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours – or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline. Five 2-liter recycled PET bottles provide enough fiberfill for a ski jacket. Every year, we make enough plastic film to shrink-wrap the state of Texas.
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- 1. 9 billion tons of litter ends up in the ocean every year. This is more than the amount of trash generated every year which is only 250 million. Suffice to say that people tend to throw things randomly anywhere more often that they throw garbage in trash bins.
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Aluminum can and plastic bottle recycling Absolutely… and here’s why. There are hundreds of reasons why recycling aluminum cans and plastic bottles is important for the environment, but what many people don’t notice, is how recycling just ONE can or bottle can save a ton of energy and space in the long run. “The aluminum industry pays out more than 800 million dollars a year for recycled cans.
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Aluminum Recycling Facts 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. A typical family consumes 182 gallons of soda, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year.bout one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material! Every year, each American throws out about 1,200 pounds of organic garbage that can be composted. The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year.
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Plastic Biodegradation in Landfills Comments (3) […] 1  Americans discard about 33.6 million tons of plastic each year. […] 2  Americans discard about 33.6 million tons of plastic each year. […] 3  with 1.5 billion pounds recovered annually in the United States, PET is not biodegradable and is a major presence in landfills.
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- Americans throw away 25 billion styrofoam coffee cups every year, and 2.5 million plastic beverage bottles every hour. Recycling Figure In 2006, only 24.7 percent of plastic beverage bottles were recycled representing only 1.11 million tons recycled of the 4.47 million tons of bottles sold.
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- MONDAY – Welcome to Earth Week with our Ban the Bottle Day kickoff! Try to use reusable water bottles not just today, but every day. You can fill them at our refill stations by the gym. Let’s see how many plastic bottles we can keep out of the trash!
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- Food for Thought: The average person generates 4.5 pounds of trash every day – about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year.Although the EPA estimates that 75 percent of solid waste is recyclable, only about 30 percent is actually recycled. Home construction, remodeling and demolition projects are responsible for 25 to 30 percent of the nation’s annual municipal solid waste. 2  The Zanker landfill’s recycling facility processes demolition debris materials at the rate of 135 tons per hour.
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- The bottled water industry has made significant inroads in reducing the amount of plastic used to make bottled water containers by light-weighting its packaging. Between 2000 and 2014, the average weight of a 16.9-ounce PET (half-liter) plastic bottle has declined 48% to 9.89 grams.
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Fun Recycling Facts There are many fun facts about recycling. Here are a number of fun and interesting recycling facts: If you know a fun recycling fact, please share it! 1  It takes 80-100 years for an aluminum can to decompose (break down) in a landfill.2  Aluminum cans can be recycled into: soda cans, pie plates, license plates, thumbtacks, aluminum foil, and many other items. Glass takes over 1,000,000 (one million) years to decompose in a landfill. 2  Glass can be recycled into jars, jewelry, bottles, dishes, drinking glasses, coffee mugs and many other items. 3  It can take up to 700 years for plastic to decompose (break down) in a landfill.
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2015 US plastic bottle recycling rate shows no growth The overall U.S. recycling rate for plastic bottles in 2015 was 31.1 percent, down slightly from 31.7 percent the previous year, according to the report. Since 2010 plastic bottle recycling has grown by nearly 400 million pounds, increasing on average by nearly 80 million pounds per year, or 2.9 percent annually, the ACC and APR say.
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How to Recycle Plastic Bottles & Jugs Why Recycle Plastic Bottles and Jugs. 1  Plastic bottles are among the most common sources of marine debris, where they can be mistaken as food by birds and fish. 2  Plastic bottles don’t biodegrade, meaning it will take hundreds of years for them to decompose in a landfill.
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BIOCYCLE  (JG Press): State of Garbage in America  (Biocycle Magazine has published annual waste generation reports by states for many years. Below are some of the latest issues. Contact Nora Goldstein for more information, call 610-967-4135, or http://www.jgpress.com/contact_us.html The recycling rate was 30%, for a total amount of 238 million tons, or 0.890 tons of waste disposed per person. By comparison, in 1990, Americans generated 269 million tons at an average of 1.089 tons per person, recycled 8%, for a total disposal of 247 million tons, or 1.002 tons per person.he EPA estimates that by the year 2008, only 1,234 landfills will be available. (Source: EPA and Mark Mardon, Earth Island Institute) In 1997, Americans generated 340 million tons of municipal waste, which averaged 1.272 tons per person.
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- Custom bottles (those used for products other than carbonated soft drinks) represent 62% of all PET bottles available for recycling. Nineteen 20-ounce PET bottles yield enough fiber for an extra large T-shirt, or enough to make one square foot of carpet. It takes 63 20-ounce PET bottles to make a sweater.
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11 Facts About Recycling The average person generates over 4 pounds of trash every day and about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year. Americans make more than 200 million tons of garbage each year, enough to fill Busch Stadium from top to bottom twice a day.
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Is It Time to Bag the Plastic? “Plastic shopping bags are an enormous problem for New York City,” said Ron Gonen, the deputy commissioner of sanitation for recycling and waste reduction, noting that the city pays $10 million annually to send 100,000 tons of plastic bags that are tossed in the general trash to landfills in South Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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Countertop A stainless steel countertop. A countertop (also counter top, counter, benchtop, (British English) worktop, or (Australian English) kitchen bench) is a horizontal work surface in kitchens or other food preparation areas, bathrooms or lavatories, and workrooms in general. It is frequently installed upon and supported by cabinets.
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- Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum. Solid Waste Every year, the United States generates approximately 230 million tons of trash--about 4.6 pounds per person per day.Less than one-quarter of it is recycled; the rest is incinerated or buried in landfills.very year, the United States generates approximately 230 million tons of trash--about 4.6 pounds per person per day. Less than one-quarter of it is recycled; the rest is incinerated or buried in landfills.
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- Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum. Solid Waste Every year, the United States generates approximately 230 million tons of trash--about 4.6 pounds per person per day. Less than one-quarter of it is recycled; the rest is incinerated or buried in landfills.
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America is a wasteland: The U.S. produces a shocking amount of garbage Food for Thought: The average person generates 4.5 pounds of trash every day – about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year.Although the EPA estimates that 75 percent of solid waste is recyclable, only about 30 percent is actually recycled.ood for Thought: The average person generates 4.5 pounds of trash every day – about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year.
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Bottled Water Demand May Be Declining While cities recycle about 23 percent of their plastic bottles, some 2 million tons of the bottles are sent to landfills each year, the Worldwatch Institute reported in 2007. Corporate Accountability International estimates that the annual cost of disposing of water bottles is $70 million.
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-  15 billion pounds of plastic are produced in the U.S. every year & only 1 billion pounds are recycled.  Every year at least 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals & sea turtles die when they. entangle themselves in plastic pollution or ingest plastics.
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- Remember to keep dirty containers out of your recycling bin. One partially empty soda bottle in a bale of plastic can spoil the whole load. Plastic grocery and produce sacks are commonly placed in recycle bins. These bags can shut down an entire recycling plant and should be kept out of our recycling bin.
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Aluminum Recycling Facts The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will operate a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. Recycling one ton of glass saves the equivalent of 10 gallons of oil. Glass can be recycled an infinite number of times.