Facts About Recycling

Facts about recycling are important because they help people understand the damage that is being done to the environment. Facts about recycling are also important because they can show people how recycling can help save the environment.

1. States that offer a deposit for bottles and cans have 35 to 40 percent less liter.
2. Dishwashers today are far more energy efficient than older models. With money an older dishwasher costs in energy bills, buying a newer model dish washer can actually save money.
3. In 2007 around 56 percent of all paper used in America was recycled. This was an all-time high.
4. It is an amazing fact about recycling that re-using one ton of paper can have spectacular results.  Re-using one ton of paper  saves seventeen trees, 7,000 gallons of water and saves enough energy to power an average American house for five months.
5. Making recycled paper uses about 40 percent less energy than making new paper.
6. Making recycled paper creates 74 percent less air-pollution than its counter-part.
7. One of the most important facts about recycling is that recycled paper can be used to make a variety of products. Paper towels, notebook paper, envelopes, copy paper and other paper products, such as boxes, hydro-mulch, molded packaging and compost are just a few products that can be made with recycled paper.
8. A steel mill, simply by using recycled scraps, can reduce its overall pollution by about 70 percent.
9. Glass produces some amazing facts about recycling. Glass can be recycled forever. If the glass collected for recycling in 1994 was stacked into outer-space it would reach the moon and back.
10. The average baby in the U.S. produces one ton of garbage a year.