Transcript Recycling
Recycling Does it really make a difference? Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to listen to a full album on your iPod. Recycling 100 cans could light your bedroom for two whole weeks. It takes as much energy to make a single new can as it does to recycle twenty used cans. An aluminum can is recycled and back on the shelf in just two months time. Americans throw away 25,000,000 plastic bottles every hour. If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we could save about 25 million trees each year. A glass bottle can take 40 centuries to be broken down if not recycled. Glass can keep getting recycled since it never wears down. Five recycled plastic bottles make enough fiberfill to stuff a ski jacket. Does recycling make a difference? YES!! When we place our recycling items in the trash they go to the landfill. A landfill is like a big hole in the ground and it is filling up fast. Soon the landfills will have no more room. Then what happens? Everyone must do their part and recycle! References DoSomething.org. (n.d.). 11 facts about recycling. Retrieved from http://www.dosomething.org/actnow/tipsandtools/11 -facts-about-recycling SERT School Energy and Recycling Team. (n.d.). Recycling fun facts. Retrieved from http://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/facilities/g reenschoolsfocus/pdf/Funfacts.pdf GreenEnergySavingTips.com. (2013). Recycling facts for kids. Retrieved from http://www.greenenergysavingtips.com/recycling-factsfor-kids/