Recycling - A few things to think about!
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An aluminum can takes about 1000 years to decompose.
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Bauxite ore (aluminum) makes up about eight percent of the earth's surface. Aluminum can be recycled indefinitely, it loses none of its qualities in the recycling process.
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The energy saved by recycling one aluminum can will power a television set for 3 hours.
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By the time a baby is toilet trained he or she will use 10, 000 diapers.
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A reusable glass bottle is usually reused 15 to 29 times.
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Alberta families throw out 400 million kilograms of paper, 70 million kilograms of cans and metals, and 15 million kilograms of glass per year.
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Recycling one tonne of waste paper saves 17 mature trees.
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The average Alberta family of four produces almost two tonnes of household garbage every year.
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About 1.7 million tonnes of garbage is put in landfills every year in Alberta. That would look like 240 football fields, each filled to 9 metres deep. It is no wonder we are running out of room on this earth to dump all our garbage into!
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Canadians mostly throw away packaging. Thirty five percent of what is in the garbage can is discarded packaging.