Facts About Recycling

• Glass is 100% recyclable and can be used more than once.
• Aluminium cans if recycled can be ready to use in just 6 weeks.
• It takes 24 trees to make 1 ton of newspaper.
• Approximately 50% of waste in the average dustbin could be composted.
• Plastic could take up to 500 years to decompose.
• The energy we save by recycling one glass bottle is enough to light a light bulb for four hours.
• Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures a year.
• Every ton of paper that is recycled saves 17 trees.

Recycling prevents habitat destruction, and saves our atmosphere with many other hazards.