Conserves Natural Resources
Thomas Fuller once stated, “We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.” When you recycle, you save usually save a lot of (1), wood (2), grass or (3), water.
What is (3) water?
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(1), Transporting the goods (2), refining or (3), making the molds is the most energy intensive steps of making metal products. This can be mostly avoided by recycling products.
What is (2) refining raw ores?
Recycling helps stop trash being (1), sent to space (2), put in a landfill or (3), incinerated that creates toxic ash and air pollutants.
What is (3) incinerated?
Takeout cups are lined with (1), cardboard (2), paint or (3), plastic that is almost impossible to separate for recycling.
What is a (3) plastic?
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Just by not (1), cleaning (2), putting in the recycling bin or (3), wetting it you could contaminate an entire truckload of recyclables.
What is (1) cleaning?
When a ton of (1), straws (2), glue or (3), paper is recycled, that saves 7,000 gallons of water and about 700 gallons of oil when a ton is recycled.
What is (3) paper?
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Recycling aluminum saves (1), 15% (2), 95% or (3), 100% of the energy used to make it.
What is (2) 95%?
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To make plastic, (1), oil (2), iron or (3), vinegar has to be extracted, heated, and molded creating 1 to 5 pounds of CO2 per pound. There is much less pollution when it only has to be heated and molded after being recycled.
What is (1) oil?
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(1), Shredded paper (2), metal jar lids or (3), big aluminum foil scraps are not recyclable because they fall through the cracks of the sorting machines.
What is (1) shredded paper?
This easy method is as simple as checking how much of (1), packaging (2), transportation or (3), wood is recycled.
What is the (1) packaging?
Every ton (2,000 pounds) of recycled aluminum saves (1), a quarter of a ton (2), four tons or (3), fifteen tons of bauxite. (The ore used to make aluminum.)
What is (2) four tons?
Ten recycled plastic bottles runs a computer (1), 2 (2), 25 or (3), 70 hours?
What are (2) 25 hours?
Recycling paper can reduce this pollution (1), land pollution (2), water pollution or (3), air pollution by about 73%.
What is (3) air pollution?
Brightly dyed paper can downgrade the value of a whole batch of white paper pulp by (1), cutting them into smaller pieces (2), making it stuck together or (3), bleeding it's color.
What is (3) bleeding it’s color?
One easy way to contribute is to inform people about (1), how bad reusing is (2), the trash in the landfills or (3), our local recycling program.
What is (3) our local recycling program?
Recycling one ton (2,000 pounds) of steel saves (1), 360 (2), 2,500 or (3), 7,900 pounds of iron ore, 1,400 pounds of coal, 120 pounds of limestone.
What is (2) 2,500 pounds of iron ore?
Using crushed, recycled glass helps save energy because the machines can operate (1), at a lower temperature (2), at a higher temperature or (3), more times.
What is operating (1) at a lower temperature?
Recycling this ”forever metal“ (1), mercury (2), aluminum or (3), stone saves about to 92 million tons of carbon dioxide every year.
What is (2) aluminum?
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These household glass items (1), plastic mugs (2), mirrors or (3), cardboard are usually recycled, however will contaminate a good batch of recyclable glass.
What are (2) mirrors?
Tell your family! You could (1), tell your family to put everything in the trash (2), put up a sign about recyclables and things that contaminate a whole truckload or (3), convince your household to use recycling and get rid of your compost bin.
What is (2) put up a sign about recyclables and things that contaminate a whole truckload?
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Recycling one ton (2,000 pounds) of glass saves (1), 1,300 (2), 4,230 or (3), 5,555 pounds of sand.
What is (1), 1,300 pound of sand?
In 2014, 90 millions pounds of municipal solid waste was recycled or composted leading to 322,000 gigawatt hours of energy which is enough to power (1), 30 million (2), 75 million or (3), 1 billion homes.
What are (1) 30 million homes?
Lisa McTigue Pierce, executive editor of Packaging Digest does this to get it recycled. “I also know that most recyclers are still not collecting polypropylene [plastic] for recycling (hence the cap and TE ring [plastic security ring] removal), and (3) the film label could contaminate the PET recycling process so let’s just rip that off and make it a non-issue.” If she didn’t, the (1), machine could break (2), truck could fall apart or (3), entire batch put in a landfill.
What is (3) the entire batch put in a landfill?
This specific type of metal can (1), tin can (2), aerosol can or (3), shaken soda can is considered hazardous and can cause explosions and fires at recycling facilities if it is not completely empty.
What is an (2) aerosol can?
This simple method is if you are about to buy something with (1), little plastic (2), excessive packaging or (3), all compostable materials, try to find something with less waste.
What is (2) excessive packaging?