Is it worth a little bit of extra effort each day?
Did you know that the U.S. throws away
around 200 million tons of garbage each day?
The average American generates about 4lbs. of garbage each day.
That is approximately 1,460lbs. per person per year!
We use enough cardboard each year to make a bale as big as
a football field and higher than the U.S.'s tallest skyscrapers.
We throw away enough aluminum every three
months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
The energy saved from recycling one
aluminum can will run your TV for 3 hours.
Recycling aluminum takes only 5% of the
energy needed to manufacture it from raw material.
When you recycle one glass bottle, you save the amount
of energy needed to light a 100 watt bulb for 4 hours.
How long does it take things to break down?
Well, tin takes 100 years, aluminum takes
500 years, and glass takes a million years.
Paper takes up as much as 50 percent of all landfill space!
The average person in North America uses 250 kg of paper each year.
If they recycled it, each person would save about 4.6 average-sized trees.
A fifteen year old tree produces only 700 grocery bags.
When 1 ton of newspaper is recycled, 3 cubic meters of
landfill space is saved and 13 - 17 trees are spared!
A stack of newspaper, collected for recycling and
piled one meter high, saves a 10 meter tall evergreen tree.
If lined up bumper to bumper, a string of garbage trucks
hauling the nations daily waste could reach halfway to the moon.
If each one of us does our part to recycle we can make a HUGE
difference. The Earth that will exist for our grandchildren
and their grandchildren is in our hands right now.
Show What The Earth Is Worth To You

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Posted By: Michigan Froggy
Date: 2003/1/29 4:30 p.m.
In Response To: What Is The World Worth To You (Roxy)
Love this Roxy and boy is it the truth. Thanks for posting it. I guess that is why I save so much to craft with, plus the fact that my Grandma's both taught me to reuse everything. I even shred my newspapers and add them to my compost, although right now I am saving them to pack up breakables. When I unpack everything, then I will add it to the compost. I also save my envelopes from my bills and use them to write notes on, use paper bags for wrapping packages, and for paper bag crafts.

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Posted By: Roxanne
Date: 2003/1/29 5:06 p.m.
In Response To: Re: What Is The World Worth To You (Michigan Froggy)
Did you know that you can use your newspapers in your garden. When I plant my tomatoes. I lay down several sheets of paper between each plant. This helps to keeps down the weeds and anything that helps me not to have to pull weeds, I love. The paper also helps to keep the ground moist during hot, dry spells. As you water the papers get soaked. And as the paper gets old, tattered, it is good mulch.

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Posted By: Michigan Froggy
Date: 2003/1/30 11:45 a.m.
In Response To: Re: What Is The World Worth To You (Roxanne)
Yeah, I do that too Roxy. I even laid down newspapers in my path around the garden really thick before I put my wood chips down to keep the weeds from coming up there. Each year I add more wood chips and it makes a nice weed free path for me...while enriching the soil as it all breaks down.

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