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Recycling 101: The Basics Together With

Recycling 101: The Basics Together With . How Much Do YOU Throw Away?. Make a list of everything you have thrown away today and everything you might throw away later. Make a list of everything you have recycled today. How much do you think the average American throws away each day?.

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Recycling 101: The Basics Together With

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  1. Recycling101: The Basics Together With

  2. How Much Do YOU Throw Away? Make a list of everything you have thrown away today and everything you might throw away later. Make a list of everything you have recycled today. How much do you think the average American throws away each day?

  3. Where Does Garbage Go? Where do you think garbage goes when it gets thrown out? Where does recycled material end up?

  4. Garbage Americans throw away more garbage than any other country in the world (per capita and total). How much do you think the average American throws away each day? • 1/2 lb. • 17 lbs. • 4 lbs. • 63 lbs.

  5. Litter, Land-Fills & Lost Energy All that waste is causing Americans a lot of problems. Litter, land-fill overflow, and excess energy use are all problems caused by America’s garbage production.

  6. Land-Fills Because Americans produce so much garbage, land-fills across the country are filling up fast! On average, one land-fill fills up every: • Day • 2 Weeks • 10 Months • 4 Years

  7. Litter As bad as land-fills are for the environment, litter is even worse! Most litter ends up in the ocean after a long journey. Litter collects in ocean currents called “gyres” and form giant garbage patches…

  8. What’s An Ocean Garbage Patch? To watch a short video which shows where massive amounts of garbage is ending up, click here.

  9. How Long Does It Take An Aluminum Can to Decompose? • 3 Years • 50-100 Years • 200-500 years • 1,000 years It takes most aluminum cans between 200 and 500 years to decompose. This means that if George Washington threw away a soda can, it would still be around today! 1

  10. Litter- Glass Bottles How long does it take for a glass bottle to decompose naturally? • 100 Years • 1,000 Years • 15,000 Years • Glass will never decompose 1

  11. Litter- Plastic Bottles How long does it take for a plastic bottle to decompose naturally? • 100 Years • 1,000 Years • 1,000,000 Years • Over 1,000,000 Years 1

  12. Litter & Landfills 1

  13. Energy Use Garbage creation isn’t the only problem created by throwing everything away. Throwing bottles and cans away means we must make new bottles and cans to replace old ones, and this takes a lot of energy!

  14. Energy Use Americans throw away around 2.5 million plastic bottles an hour. Aside from causing a huge amount of pollution, this is also a huge waste of energy. How long do you think you could run a 60-watt light bulb with the energy saved from recycling a single bottle? a. 30 Minutes b. 3 Hours c. 10 Days d. 15 Seconds 2

  15. Energy Use While the raw material that goes into making glass – sand – is cheap, making new glass still requires significant energy. How long do you think you could run a computer using the energy saved from recycling a single glass bottle? • 3 Seconds • 5 Hours • 25 Minutes • 7 Days 3

  16. Energy Use Recycling aluminum takes about 95% less energy than making new aluminum. How long do you think you could power the average American home using the energy saved from recycling one ton of aluminum? • 3 Minutes • 5 Hours • 10 Years • 8 Days 4

  17. Aluminum Aluminum is the only packaging material that is 100% recyclable forever! Let’s take a closer look… To watch a video about aluminum, click here

  18. Now You Know So now that you know how important recycling is, get out there and do something about it! One of the easiest things to do is to begin recycling 100% of your own bottles and cans…

  19. Recycling With Clynk To view a video about how CLYNK recycles, click the link below CLYNK-How it Works

  20. Sources for Factual Information • 1- NDEP. "How Long Does Trash Last." NevadaRecycles.gov. Neveda Division of Environmental Protection. Web. 12 Sept. 2011. <http://nevadarecycles.gov>. • 2- "Recycle Facts | Labels for Recycling | Single Sort Stream Comingled Mixed Recycling." Recycle Across America | Recycling Labels Decals Signs Stickers Compost Waste. Environmental Advancement Foundation. Web. 12 Sept. 2011. <http://www.recycleacrossamerica.org/recycling-fact.html>. • 3- "Environmental Factoids | WasteWise | US EPA." US Environmental Protection Agency. EPA, 28 July 2011. Web. 28 Sept. 2011. <http://www.epa.gov/osw/partnerships/wastewise/wrr/factoid.htm>. • 4-"Alcoa: News: Alcoa TV." Alcoa Inc. -- Primary Aluminum (aluminium) and Fabricated Aluminum Products. ALCOA INC. Web. 12 Sept. 2011. <http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/news/alcoa_video.asp?videoid=129>.

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