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Recycling Metal

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:48
We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year.
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Recycling Metal

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:47
At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold!
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Recycling Metal

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:46
A 60-watt light bulb can be run for over a day on the amount of energy saved by recycling 1 pound of steel. In one year in the United States, the recycling of steel saves enough energy to heat and light 18,000,000 homes!
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Recycling Paper

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:45
To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
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Recycling Paper

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:44
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!
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Trees

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:44
If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.
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Trees

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:43
If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them. A supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are in the U.S.!
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Trees

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:42
The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year! The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
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Trees

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:41
Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
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Recycling Paper

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:41
Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person. The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.