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Earth Week 2010Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repeat, Rejoice
RECYCLE
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After you REDUCE and REUSE…
It’s time to RECYCLE!
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But why do we need to REDUCE and REUSE first?
Because RECYCLING uses energy.
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How?
•When we put things in a recycling bin, someone in a truck comes to pick it up.
•The truck takes it to a factory where machines crunch up the glass, tear up the paper, and melt down the plastic.
•Then other machines make new stuff out of the old stuff.
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All those machines use ENERGY.
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So, is RECYCLING bad?
NORECYCLING IS GOOD!
Just make sure your reduce and reuse FIRST!
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Lots of things that should be recycled end up in the trash.
In fact, 2/3 of the stuff that ends up in landfills could have been recycled.
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We dump 8 million tons of MAGAZINES into landfills each
year.
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Americans throw away 25 billion STYROFOAM coffee cups every
year.
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About 38 billion PLASTIC water bottles end up in landfills every
year.
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Approximately 90 percent of COMPUTER contents can be reused or
recycled. But many computers get thrown away.
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Did you know that PAINT can be recycled?
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If all our NEWSPAPER were recycled, we could save about
25,000,000 trees a year!
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Only about 35 percent of GLASS gets recycled.
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What if you are not sure if it can be recycled?
•Contact the city that you live in.•Or go to www.earth911.com.
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REMEMBER…You CAN make a difference!