Saving the environment, one school at a time

This is very funny, but it also teaches you the process of recycling. It is great.

5 million tons (more than ½ of the plastics thrown away in the U.S. each year) of packaging is thrown away each year in the
U.S. Each person uses 190 pounds of plastic every year (1/3 of this is packaging). If 105 of Americans bought products with less packaging, the country could eliminate 144 million lbs of plastic landfill. That is why this is a key thing to recycle. It is something we are considering putting in our project.

In the United States, over 11 billion tons of garbage is produced every year. By recycling, you could almost cut that in half. In doing that you preserve so many non-renewable resources, and you also preserve land that would most likely be turned into a landfill. There is nothing to lose by recycling, so you should go ahead and do it.

About 55 million newspapers are sold per day and on Sunday about 59 million are sold. Which means about 20.2 billion newspapers are sold every year. And if not even half of those people recycle those newspapers, think about how many unnecessary tons are going into landfills. That is why we will be collecting newspapers for this contest.