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By: Mike Arms

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The US Environmental Protection Agency interprets recycling as the "sorting, collecting, and processing materials to manufacture and sell them as new products." In a world facing multiple environmental challenges like pollution and global warming, largely of our own making, recycling is one certain method to help cleanse the environment and prevent more waste from being piled up in our landfills and worse, in the world's oceans. Doing nothing is not a choice. Here are some recycling facts to help us place in proper context just how critical recycling is.

Recycling is definitely vital to help sustain our environment. It functions to decrease the transmission of warming fumes by lessening the pile of solid waste incinerated and by moderating gasoline being used to produce fresh materials. In point of fact, it reduces the need for new materials as old ones are reprocessed for manufacturing.

Recycling facts about plastic

Plastic, a product of our modern profligate way of life, was previously touted as a revolutionary breakthrough - it even bagged a trophy in the World's Fair in London in 1862. It's light, supple, and long lasting. Lamentably, over the years, it is this very strength of plastic that has proven to be an ecological debacle for us. A hunk of plastic thrown away today takes a very long time to rot, it will stay as plastic for at least 500 years before total deterioration.

All plastics can be reused, it's bewildering why the majority of us don't recycle. A promising new technique has surfaced recently that could feed more incentive for us to recycle plastic waste. A company in Washington, D.C. called Envion, has recently unveiled its new recycling installation that could recycle all types of plastic waste and turn these into a fuel base. Hopefully, this will serve as stipulated - it could prove to be the answer to the world's plastic pollution quandary.

All of us utilize and dump 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour! Recycling just 26 of these bottles is enough to produce one polyester suit!

Lately, a number of news organizations and celebrities have been showing documentaries of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's reported to be double the size of the state of Texas and holds as much as 100 million tons of plastic debris. Due to the action of the sun and sea water, the plastic in this area is splitting into shard-like pieces and are devoured by fish and other sea organisms, which we serve in our dinner tables - the plastic we carelessly cast off has come back via the food chain to bedevil us all.

Recycling facts about paper

Thanks to the Digital Age, old-style broadsheets are now using less paper to print their Sunday editions. As progressively more people go online to stay current with what's happening in the world, venerable franchises like The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal are now obligated to publish online sites or risk becoming irrelevant.

To print a single Sunday issue of all newspapers in the United States, 500 thousand trees were chopped down for their pulp to make all that paper. In America, 85,000,000 tons of paper are discarded annually - that's equal to 680 lbs. for every man, woman, and child in this country.

If we reuse just 10 percent of the newspapers we read and discard afterward, we'd spare 25 million trees annually. The best option, cancel all subscriptions NOW or subscribe via RSS solely to the online edition of your favorite journal.

Recycling facts about metal

Are you aware of the viral film showing aluminum cans? It's surprising how we squander this precious metal by not recycling. The number of aluminum containers we waste annually is estimated to be sufficient to reconstruct all the passenger and freight aircraft in the United States 3 times over!

Recycling one ton of aluminum is equal to storing energy to power an ordinary US home for ten years! Aluminum cans are the perfect model for what is known as closed-loop recycling model. This suggests that all post-consumer aluminum container may be processed to make a fresh new can, which will be up for sale in your local grocery in as short as 4-6 weeks - closed-loop, nothing wasted.

A few in the academe propose that recycling today is both expensive and pointless. They advise that we deposit all garbage in landfills now and wait for an invention to be discovered that would make it more efficient and cost-effective to dig up landfills and clean up the oceans for all the accumulated garbage, and process these into fresh materials for us. I certainly look forward to that day, but in the meantime, we have to confront waste, sparsity of materials, carbon emissions, and inadequate dump sites. It's our world - no one else will protect it, there's just us. Let's recycle today, and educate ourselves about recycling facts in our schools and on the internet.

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Michael Arms writes about recycling facts and other topics for the Pacebutler Recycling Blog. Pacebutler Corporation is a U.S. cell phone trading company - you may sell, recycle, or donate cell phones to your favorite charity through Pacebutler.

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