Welovetorecycle

75% of produced waste can actually be recycled.
Plastic takes up to 500 years to decompose, glass 4,000 years, diskettes 500 years, and ink cartridges 1,000 years. Till then it will occupy our water bodies, soils etc.
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.
If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year.
Recycled paper produces 73% less air pollution than if it was made from raw materials.
The production of paper using recycled materials uses 40% less of the time needed to make the same product from virgin materials.
The unreleased energy contained in the average dustbin each year could power a television for 5,000 hours.
Up to 80% of a vehicle can be recycled.
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours.
Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute.
A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water.

Motor oil never wears out, it just gets dirty. Oil can be recycled, re-refined and used again, reducing our reliance on imported oil.
Each tonne (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution.
The amount of wood and paper that we throw every year presently is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
In INDIA wood is used only for less than 8-10% of paper; Most of the paper is made either from waste paper, or from agricultural residues e.g. bagasse, rice straw etc.
Worldwide, the equivalent of almost 270,000 trees is either flushed or dumped in landfills every day and roughly 10 percent of that total is attributable to toilet paper, according to the World Watch magazine.
In India only 20-25 percent of waste paper is recycled.
Studies have indicated that for every Indian Rs. 1000 increase in income the solid waste generation increases by one kilogram per month.
The country will go from producing less than 40,000 tons of waste annually to over 125,000 tons by the year 2030.

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