Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
Concrete Recycling
Battery Recycling
Biodegradable Waste Recycling (Composting/Anaerobic Digestion)
Electronic Waste Recycling
Printer & Ink Cartridges
Glass
Paper
Ferrous Materials
Non-Ferrous Materials
Plastic
Shipbreaking
Textile Recycling
If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each
year
Recycling a stack of newspapers just 3 feet high can save one tree
We throw away enough office paper annually to build a wall twelve feet high
stretching from Los Angeles to New York City
Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour. Most of them are thrown
away.
The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will operate a 100-watt light
bulb for 4 hours
Every month we throw away enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant
skyscraper
Glass can be recycled an infinite amount of times
Each of us generates on average 4.4 pounds of waste per day per person
Did you know that the state of Maryland generated enough municipal solid
waste in 2000 to build a wall 3’ wide x 6’ high and 3,839 miles long? That is
long enough to go from Baltimore to Miami over 3.5 times.
Americans make more than 200 million tons of garbage each year, enough to
fill Cole Fieldhouse from top to bottom twice a day