Recycling Bottles My Carbon Footprint

Throwing things away is a waste of the energy and the resources taken to make the product. Reducing the number of things that need to be thrown away, reduces the amount of materials which have to remade again. For example:- Making Aluminum cans from old ones uses one twelfth of the energy to make them from raw materials Recycling saves energy, conserves natural resources, limits pollution, and supports several sectors of the economy.

 The average American consumed 1.6 gallons of bottled water in In 2006, that number jumped to 28.3 gallons.  More than 2.4 billion pounds of plastic bottles were recycled in Although the amount of plastic bottles recycled in the U.S. has grown every year since 1990, the actual recycling rate remains steady at around 27 percent.  Plastics in the U.S. are made primarily (70 percent) from domestic natural gas.

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