RECYCLE  RECYCLE  RECYCLE

Malaysia has already started encouraging the people to recycle waste products. There is still some antipathy towards this especially from the older generation. However, we as a nation must still prevail and make an effort to ensure that recycling is carried out at home, in schools, at the workplace and in public areas.

The following list of recycling facts are among some of the most thought provoking ones that I have found and would like to share. The list is not exhaustive but the few here do relate to our everyday life.

Aluminum Recycling Facts

A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days. That's closed loop recycling at its finest!

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

 

More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product.

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 be recycled. We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year. Paper Recycling Facts To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down. If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them. A busy supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket can go through over 6 million paper bags! The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail. Plastic Recycling Facts Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year! Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator. Glass Recycling Facts A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill. Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. All of these jars are recyclable!