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Paper
- Not only does every tonne save 13 trees but it saves 2.5 barrels of oil, 4100 kilowatts engery, 4 cubic metres landfill and 31,780 litres water.
- On Average paper can be recycled 8 - 12 times. It is used to make more paper and cardboard.
- It takes 3 months for a paper tissue to disappear.
- For every one tonne of paper reycycled we conserve 31,780 litres of water
Plastic
- Recycling one tonne of plastics saves enough engery to run a fridge for a month.
- 4 Million New Zealanders use over 22 Million plastic bags each week. That's more than 5 for every person.
- The amount of petroleum used to make one plastc bag is enough to drive a car about 115m. The amount of plastic bags Ashburton uses could drive a car to Mt Hutt and back 9,300 times.
- Plastic bags can take up to 500 years to breakdown in a landfill
- Plastic kills at least 100,000 birds, whales, seals and turtles every year.
- Recycling of 12 soft drink bottles can produce one pillow, 11 bottles = one water can.
Steel
- The average person uses about 6 kilograms of steel cans every year but only 2.4 kilograms is recycled.
- Recycling 670 tin cans can produced one bicycle. 19000 tin cans = one car.
- It takes 100 years for a tin can to disappear in the wild.
Aluminium
- Did you know that the entire amount of aluminium thrown out per year in the USA would be enough to renew their entire fleet of commerical aircrafts every three months.
- For every tonne recycled 13,300 kWh of electricity is saved.
- Most of the bauxite ore used to make aluminium cans is mined in the tropics. Recycling aluminium helps save are tropical forests and the animals that live there.
- One recycled can saves enough electricity to run a TV for three hours.
- One beer can takes 200-500 years to disappear
Glass
- Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to light a bulb for four hours.
- Reycyling glass saves 25-32% of energy used to make it.
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