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Why recycle?
Article posted by Marlene Frost on Wednesday, June, 24th, 2009 at 9:25 am
I recently attended a tour at Glacier Recycling in Auburn through ABC Associated Builders and Contractors, Green Council. I have to say even though this event sounded like it was going to be boring, it was actually interesting so I decided to write a little something about recycling.
Let’s start with, what is recycling? Recycling is the process of making or manufacturing new products from a product that has originally served its purpose. If these used products are disposed of in an appropriate, environmentally friendly way, that my friend is what you call recycling.
A large amount of people are starting to realize how important recycling is, however, there are many that remain unaware or simply think it is too much of a bother to take the time. They believe the trend is growing, however and that proactive individuals and alternative energy companies are starting to step up in a big way. Here are some eye opening facts.
Recycling Statistics in the US
* 82 million tons of materials are recycled in the United States.
* 53.4 % of all paper products are being recycled. Technocom only uses recycled paper!
* There is about 100% increase in the total recycling in the United States during the past decade.
* Each person produces 4.6 lbs. of trash per day in the United States.
* United States recycles about 32% of its waste today. Come on people, I know we can do better than this.
Interesting metal recycling facts
* Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74 percent of the energy used to make them.
* Americans throw away enough aluminum every month to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
* Americans throw out enough iron and steel to continuously supply all the auto makers in the entire nation. Interesting….do I really need to say what everyone is thinking??
* A steel mill using recycled scrap reduces water pollution, air pollution, and mining waste by about 70 percent.
* When you throw away an aluminum can you waste as much energy as if you’d filled the can half full of gasoline and poured it into the ground.
* Americans use 100 million tin and steel cans each day.
* Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a 100 watt light bulb for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours, and a TV for 2 hours.
I know most of this information is about general recycling. I also wanted to focus some attention to copper recycling because well, that is one of the materials Technocom is responsible for recycling when we do a demo of cable. Did you know that scrap consumption over the past 20 years has provided between 44 and 54.7% of the total copper consumed in the U.S. To learn more about copper, copper recycling and all other copper facts check out www.copper.org.
Some other interesting websites on recycling:
http://www.binfordmetals.com/contact.html
http://www.glacierrecycle.com/welcome.html
Visit out Facebook Page to see all of the pictures I took during our Glacier Recycle tour. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wilsonville-OR/Technocom-Inc/57090862390?ref=ts
Remember…..…reduce, reuse and RECYCLE!
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