Posts tagged "recycle"
For many years the word “recycle” in America has been a buzz word. People are proud of their recycling efforts. Many communities, businesses, and schools have set up recycling programs and put on collection drives to raise money for their...
50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans were made in the time it took you to read this one sentence! That's an insane amount of soda cans, beer cans, ice tea cans, energy drink cans, juice cans, and so forth. Wouldn't it be...
Did you know that an estimated 144 billion beverage containers were thrown in landfills, incinerated, or discarded into the natural environment in some way in the US in 2005? That's approximately 2 out of 3 of every container sold in...
Did you know that more than 100 billion pieces of junk mail are delivered to American households each year? The production, distribution, and disposal of all of that junk mail creates the equivalent emissions of over 9.3 million cars annually....
Did you know that 14 billion pounds of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year? Yup, that means all those single-use plastic bottles, plastic bags, paper that wasn't recycled, wasted food, all sorts of junk that falls off of...
