Green Talk @ Sans Tech Press : Eco Facts

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.