{"id":113,"date":"2018-03-08T19:41:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/simplewaystochangetheworld\/?p=113"},"modified":"2018-03-16T18:11:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T18:11:52","slug":"facts-about-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/simplewaystochangetheworld\/2018\/03\/08\/facts-about-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Facts about Recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a previous blog post I talked about what can and cannot be recycled. I can across this neat website! They gave such interesting facts about recycling I had to share!!\u00a0\"Image<\/h4>\n

11 Facts about Recycling:<\/h3>\n
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  1. The average person generates over 4 pounds of trash every day and about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year.<\/li>\n
  2. Americans make more than 200 million tons of garbage each year, enough to fill Busch Stadium from top to bottom twice a day. Next time you\u2019re at a sporting event or tailgate, host a trash-free tailgate using only recyclable materials sign up for\u00a0Trash-Free Tailgate<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  3. The EPA estimates that 75% of the American waste stream is recyclable, but we only recycle about 30% of it.<\/li>\n
  4. We generate 21.5 million tons of food waste each year. If we composted that food, it would reduce the same amount of greenhouse gas as taking 2 million cars off the road.<\/li>\n
  5. 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. Sign up for\u00a05 Cans Challenge\u00a0<\/em>to save energy and show off your creative side.<\/li>\n
  6. The Container Recycling Institute (CRI) estimates that the 36 billion aluminum cans land filled last year had a scrap value of more than $600 million.<\/li>\n
  7. Americans throw away about 28 billion bottles and jars every year.<\/li>\n
  8. Over 87% of Americans have access to curbside or drop-off paper recycling programs.<\/li>\n
  9. In 2009, Americans threw away almost 9 million tons of glass. That could fill enough tractor trailers to stretch from NYC to LA (and back!).<\/li>\n
  10. In 2010, paper recycling had increased over 89% since 1990.<\/li>\n
  11. A glass container can go from a recycling bin to a store shelf in as few as 30 days.\"Image<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Be the change! Recycle! This may be something small that you are doing but it makes a BIG difference!!!\u00a0\"Image<\/h3>\n

    The link is below:<\/em><\/p>\n

    https:\/\/www.dosomething.org\/us\/facts\/11-facts-about-recycling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    On a previous blog post I talked about what can and cannot be recycled. I can across this neat website! They gave such interesting facts about recycling I had to share!!\u00a0 11 Facts about Recycling: The average person generates over 4 pounds of trash every day and about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year.… Continue reading 11 Facts about Recycling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[763287,762928,763428],"tags":[784621,2989,460,784829,32,1814,27477],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas-effort","category-global-impact","category-individual-change","tag-11facts","tag-challenge","tag-change","tag-compost","tag-environment","tag-recycle","tag-trash","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/simplewaystochangetheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/simplewaystochangetheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/simplewaystochangetheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/simplewaystochangetheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/simplewaystochangetheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/simplewaystochangetheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/simplewaystochangetheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/simplewaystochangetheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/simplewaystochangetheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/simplewaystochangetheworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}