Time for Green Talk @ Sans Tech Press. I used to always think about global issues on nature and its protection, and today I thought of blogging some good tips and facts on environment and some harmfull products and how we can manage it.
GLASS
- Glass containers go from recycling bin to store shelf in as little as 30 days.
- An estimated 80% of recovered glass containers are made into new glass bottles.
- For every ton of glass recycled, over a ton of raw materials are saved, including 1,300 pounds of sand, 410 pounds of soda ash, 380 pounds of limestone, and 160 pounds of feldspar.
- Ninety percent of recycled glass is used to make new containers.
- Recycling glass helps to preserve natural resources while lessening the load on landfills—and helping communities avoid expensive disposal costs.
- Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours.
- Recycling glass lowers the melting temperature and saves 32% of the energy needed for production of new glass.
PLASTIC
- If we recycled every plastic bottle we used, we would keep 2 billion tons of plastic out of landfills.
- Recycling a pound of PET saves approximately 12,000 BTUs.
- It takes 25 two-liter plastic soft drink bottles to make a sweater.
- It takes two plastic soft drink bottles to make enough polyester fiber for a baseball cap.
- It takes 35 two liter plastic soft drink bottles to make 1 sleeping bag.
- Americans go through 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
ALUMINIUM
- If we recycled the 48 billion aluminum cans that we throw away each year, we could save the equivalent of 24 million barrels of oil.
- Recycling aluminum cans saves precious natural resources, energy, time and money – all for a good cause – helping out the earth, as well as the economy and local communities.
- Aluminum is a sustainable metal and can be recycled over and over again.
- In 2003, 54 billion cans were recycled, saving the energy equivalent of 15 million barrels of crude oil (America’s entire gas consumption for one day). It takes about 6 weeks total to manufacture, fill, sell, recycle, and then remanufacture a beverage can.
- The energy saved from recycling one aluminum drink can will run your TV for 3 hours.
- If we recycle the aluminum trash that Americans throw away, we could rebuild the entire US airline fleet every three months.
- Recycling one aluminum can saves the amount of energy to light one 100-watt bulb for 20 hours or run a TV for 3 hours.
- In America, 1,500 aluminum cans are recycled every second.
In fact, the prestigious Princeton College Review and Kaplan’s College Guide now have sections devoted to how “green” a particular college or university is today. I wish all the colleges in our Country also to take up Green Projects within their locale and make the earth a better place for the future to rejoice.
