Recycling Recycle Buy recycled
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Recycling Recycle Buy recycled
There is an increasing range of recycled products in the marketplace, usually meeting or exceeding demands of quality, availability and reliability. The barriers lie in finding ways of increasing public awareness, acceptance and confidence in recycled content products. Recycling supports new jobs, preserves natural resources and is a win-win situation for everyone. Recycling success is not determined solely by the amount of materials collected but also by the amount processed and reused in new products and materials. Without attention to this part of the equation, recycling simply does not work in the long-term. Be a part of the solution! Every day Americans buy 62 million newspapers and throw away 44 million of them. Thats like dumping hallf a million trees into a landfill every week! The trees that were chopped down to make new paper can no longer m ake oxygen, absorb carbon dioxide, or provide a habitat for thousands of species. Every month Americans throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill a giant skyscraper! All this glass is recyclable! All this glass takes up space in landfills. And this glass will take 4,000 years or more to decompose! Every year more than 100 million cell phones and millions of personal computers are tossed out in the United States. Because these products contain lead, and other hazardous materials, this trash leaks into our environment and threatens human and animal health. What did you throw out today? A water bottle? A soda can? A paper lunch bag? Perhaps some school papers or a cereal box? Did you stop to think whether or not these items could be recycled? This week we visited our Planet Protector, Charleston County Solid Waste, to see if items like these could be recycled into brand n ew items with another use. We learned just how much Americans discard every day, and we learned how easy it is for us to make a differencejust by recycling.
YouTube | February 17, 2009
