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Facts About Recycling Fact 1: Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to listen to a full album on your iPod. Fact 2: Recycling 100 cans could light your bedroom for two whole weeks. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 3: Recycling is a process to create new items from old and used materials. This helps in reducing energy and potentially useful materials from being wasted. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 4: Recycling is a part of waste disposal hierarchy – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 5: Aluminium cans can actually be recycled and put back onto the shelf at your local grocery store in just about 2 months. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 6: Aluminum cans are probably the most recycled item. While this is true, you can also recycle other forms of aluminum as well. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 7: Recycling an aluminum can helps to save a great deal of energy, in fact, enough to run your home television for about three hours! By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 8: Most beverage cans are made up of aluminum, even though there are other products that go into it as well. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

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Fact 9: In 2015, paper recycling had increased over 89% since A glass container can go from a recycling bin to a store shelf in as few as 30 days. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 10: If we recycled all newspapers, we could save over 250 million trees each and every year. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 11: Most people use at least seven trees each year, through wood, paper and other types of products that use trees. That is over 2 trillion trees throughout the course of the year when you think about it. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 12: Most people use around 680 pounds of paper each year, and most people just throw it away instead of recycling it for further use. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 13: 2000 pounds of recycled paper can actually help to save 17 trees, over 350 gallons of oil, and a lot of landfill space. That also means less air pollution! By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 14: Recycling helps to conserve energy and as a result less greenhouse gases are emitted. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 15: Plastic bags that are thrown into the ocean kill over a million sea creatures a year. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 16: Over 60% of the trash that ends in dustbin could be recycled. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 17: Over 25 trillion Styrofoam coffee cups are thrown away each year! By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 18: Glass jars can be recycled, but there are many that are just thrown away. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 19: 24 trees are cut down to make 1 ton of newspaper. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 20: Recycling helps to reduce the amount of waste that goes to landfills and as a result less harmful emissions like methane gas are released into the earth’s atmosphere. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 21: A modern glass bottle could take over 4000 years to actually decompose, and if it is in the landfill then it will probably take even longer than that. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Fact 22: Most dumps are made up of a third of packaging materials that could be recycled. By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

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Recycling Fact 22: Recycling one aluminum can saves enough electricity to run a TV for 3 hours By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Recycling Fact 23: Recycling one glass bottle or jar saves enough electricity to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS

Recycling Fact 24: Recycling one ton of plastic saves the equivalent of 1,000–2,000 gallons of petrol By Fatima 9NS By Fatima 9NS