Lorenzo Walker Campus Wide

 

 Recycling Project

 

 

 

 

How recycling is done:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Analysis of recycling centers and their effect on the environment:

 

 USA Recycling LLC

239-417-5050

aramaount Demo & Waste Solutions LLC

866-774-3811

 

 www.earth911.org

paperrecycles.org

 

http:p//xcwp13@google.com/eachyearwethrowaway%3a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overall Pros/Cons of recycling:

Pro

Areas where savings occur may include:

 

Lower manufacturing costs for products made from recycled rather than virgin materials

 

Avoiding landfill or incineration fees, still over $100 per ton in Passaic County, New Jersey

 

The value of conserving our natural resources

 

The value of saved energy by recycling materials rather than obtaining virgin materials

Con

 Sometimes, recycling can cost more then non-recycling.

 

Collection, transpotation and processing costs

 

Capital investments sycg as equipment and container costs and labor fees

 

Recycling market fees may be charged to cover the costs of processing certain materials

 

 

 

Common recycled products: 

 Aggregates & Concerte

 Batteries

 Biodegradable Waste

 Electrionics Disassembly and reclamation

Printer ink cartidges & toners

Ferrous Metals

Non-Ferrous Metals

Glass

Paper

Plastic

Textiles

Timber

Cans

Milk

Soap

Juice

Water

Grocery sack

telephone books

sticky notes

envelopes and junk mail

 

Facts About Recycling:

 

We save 17 trees for each ton of recycled newspaper.

If every household reused a paper grocery bag for one shopping trip, about 60,000 treees would be saved.

American's throw out about 85% of the office paper we use.

Americans use 50 million tons of paper annually, which means we consume more than 850 million trees. That means the average American uses about 580 pounds of paper each year.

Eac hyear, 27 Million ares of tropical rainforests are destroyed. That's an area the size of Ohio, and translates to 74,000 acres per day...3,000 acres per hour...50 acres per minute

Almost 160 millions ton of wate is made in the us each year. 

Americans make between 3 and 4 pounds of waste per day.

 

 

FUN FACTS

 

* Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.

* 350,000 aluminum cans are produced every minute!

* More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product

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* Once an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part of a new can within six weeks.

* Because so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste stream, according to EPA estimates.

* During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.

* An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!

* There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can can be recycled.

* Aluminum can manufacturers have been making cans lighter -- in 1972 each pound of aluminum produced 22 cans; today it yields 29 cans.

* We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year.

* At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold!

* A 60-watt light bulb can be run for over a day on the amount of energy saved by recycling 1 pound of steel. In one year in the United States, the recycling of steel saves enough energy to heat and light 18,000,000 homes!

* Every ton of recycled steel saves 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,000 of coal, and 40 pounds of limestone.

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