Benefits of recycling Plastics

Did you know!!!

• Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away!
• Recycling 1 ton of plastic can save 1-2 thousand gallons of gas.
• For every 1 ton of plastic that is recycled we save the equivalent of 2 people’s energy use for 1 year, the amount of water used by 1 person in 2 month’s time 
• Recycling one ton of plastic saves 7.4 cubic yards of landfill space.

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Plastics Recycling in 4 Simple Steps

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1. Learn what items and materials are accepted for recycling in your community.

2. Recycle often and recycle right.learn which types of plastics are – and are not – recycled in your area, and to sort things accordingly. Clean out plastic items before recycling.

3. Deposit bottles in the bin – not the trash.

4. Bring bags back.many local and national retailers now offer drop-off programs that allow consumers to return their used bags to be recycled

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Resin Identification Code

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Ever wondered what those number mean under some of your plastics?

 

 

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Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Science vs. Myth

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• There is no "garbage patch".While it's true that these areas have a higher concentration of plastic than other parts of the ocean, much of the debris found in these areas are small bits of plastic (micro plastics) that are suspended throughout the water column.
• There are many "garbage patches".Trash congregates to various degrees in numerous parts of the Pacific and the rest of the ocean. These natural gathering points appear where rotating currents, winds, and other ocean features converge to accumulate marine debris, as well as plankton, seaweed, and other sea life.

Click this link if you want more information. http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/how-big-great-pacific-garbage-patch-science-vs-myth.html

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How Plastics Are Made

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• Plastic is made using a variety of chemical and refining processes that turn single molecules called monomers into long chains called polymers.
• The main types of raw materials used to make plastic are fossil products, such as crude oil and natural gas.
• Producing new plastic from recycled material uses only two-thirds of the energy required to manufacture it from raw materials.

This week I think is going to be one of the hardest for me. My purpose of starting this blog is to try to educate other as well as myself on the importance of recycling. I try to find pictures to go alone with the topics I am discussing that week. This topic as a lot of pictures of how it is directly effecting the sea life. Theses pictures are very sad and disturbing. There is a part of me that doesn't want to post those type of pictures because of how disturbing they are. There is another part of me that says maybe I should show them. Everyone should know this is whats happening because many of us are choosing not recycle.

Gabriel and Sons Recycling

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