Your Questions About Recycling

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My favorite book “The Green Book” has lots of facts with references to back them up. In case you don’t have time to get the book I’ll quote you a few things.

Referring to bottled water, 1.5 tons of plastic are used in bottling 89 billion liters of water each year, and less than 20% of that gets recycled.

The average US home receives 1.5 trees worth of junk mail each year. If every american recycled their junk mail $370 million in landfill dumping fees would be saved each year.

Phone books are recyclable yet they make up almost 10% of the waste in the landfill.

Each year 10 million tons of newspaper are tossed into landfills. If just half was recycled it would save 75 million trees.

Another site to check out is the EPA they have government stats for recycling.

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” From Dust to Dust “

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For a quick word try Wikipedia.

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I don’t want to pay extra tax money on the world being green.

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Http://globalwarming.sdsu.edu/

http://environment.about.com/b/2009/02/13/13-scary-facts-about-global-warming.htm

http://www.recycling-revolution.com/recycling-facts.html

http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-recycling

http://www.resourcefulschools.org/facts.html

http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/recycle/fun.htm

Hope this Helps:)

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Http://www.greenhq.net/united-states-recycling-statistics.html

http://greenwaste.com/recycling-stats

http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/United_States_Recycling_Statistics

http://www.recyclingsuperguide.com/recycling-the-stats

http://daf.csulb.edu/offices/ppfm/facilitiesmanagement/recycling/stats.html

http://www.environment-green.com/More_Recycling_Facts_and_Statistics.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling

http://www.cawrecycles.org/facts_and_stats (LOTS OF GOOD LINKS)

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There is nothing bad about recycling, just a bunch a myths

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Statistics involve numbers. Your example is more of a statement rather than a statistic. You should be able to find many statistics by even searching in Google. There are a lot of eco-friendly organizations out there that quote statistics, and government agencies as well. I suggest that you first learn what a statistic is so you understand what you’re looking for, and then search for environmental statistics.

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Here’s a general idea. You could have a recycling company and say they recycle paper, plastic, and glass items. Say, for example, on certain days the company recycles x amount of plastic, y amount of paper, and z amount of glass (but make it different for each day). You could turn this into statistics by having the students find the percentage of each type of material the company recycles on a given day, over a monthly period, or in a year.

I hope this helps!