101 Reasons to Recycle

Preserve natural resources:

1. Recycling the print run of a single Sunday issue of the new york times would spare 75,000 trees
2. Recycling 1 ton of aluminum saves 4 tons of bauxite
3. Using recycler paper,60% of the water normally needed in paper manufacturing is saves;
4. By ising recycled steel, there is a 40% water savings.
5. Reduce pollution
6. Manufacturing products from recycled paper reduces
7. Water pollution by 35# and air polltants by 73%
8. Reduces need for landfills
9. In the US landfills include more than 80 percent of all solid waste.
10. Landfills are ticking time bombs- oroducing unknown gases and chemicals
11. Litter cost US tax payers 500 million dollars per year to pay state highway pick up crews
12. Making new steal from old scrap offers up to 75% energy savings.
13. Producing aluminum from scrap instead of bauxite ore energy use by 95%
14. Paper recycling saves up to 70% of the energy needed to create paper from new timber.

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