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Many people ask, "Why recycle?" There are many reasons; here are just a few.
- In a lifetime, the average American will throw away 600 times their adult weight in garbage. If you add it up, this means that a 150 pound adult will throw away over 90,000 pounds of trash.
- By recycling 1 aluminum beverage can, enough energy is saved to run a television set for three hours.
- Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74% of the energy used to produce them from raw materials.
- 1,050 recycled milk jugs can make a standard-sized park bench.
- 1 ton of paper made completely from recycled scrap
rather than virgin wood fiber will save:
- 4,100 kilowatt hours of energy
- over 17 mature trees
- 7,000 gallons of water
- over 12 cubic yards of landfill space
- When placed in a landfill, it takes each of these
items the indicated time to biodegrade:
- Paper in 2-4 weeks
- Rope in 3-14 months
- A tin can in 100 years
- A wool sock in 1 year
- A cotton rug in 450 years
- A glass bottle takes on undetermined number of years
Keep the environment a good place to live: recycle!
RDA Recycling can reduce your solid waste stream by up to 75%, causing a significant reduction in your solid waste costs. Besides these savings, any revenue generated by recycled commodities will be shared with you at a rate of up to 50%.