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MORE INTERESTING RECYCLING FACTS: Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline. Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person. Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year. The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for 4 hours or a compact fluorescent bulb for 20 hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials. The highest point in Hamilton County, Ohio (near Cincinnati) is Mount Rumpke. It is actually a mountain of trash at the Rumpke sanitary landfill towering 1045 ft. above sea level. 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.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:31:08 +0000

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