{"id":173,"date":"2005-01-02T21:29:07","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T01:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/01\/02\/173\/"},"modified":"2005-06-09T20:30:42","modified_gmt":"2005-06-10T01:30:42","slug":"ecounderstanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/01\/02\/173\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecounderstanding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recycling and Environmental Facts<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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  • Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees, 2 barrels of oil (enough to run the average car for 1,260 miles), 4,100 kilowatts of energy (enough power for the average home for 6 months), 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60 pounds of air pollution. Trash to Cash<\/li>\n
  • Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial fleet of airplanes every 3 months. Environmental Defense Fund<\/li>\n
  • About 80% of what Americans throw away is recyclable, yet our recycling rate is just 28%. Environmental Protection Agency<\/li>\n
  • Over \u00c2\u00bd million trees are saved each year by recycling paper in Boulder County. Eco-Cycle<\/li>\n
  • There are more roads in our National Forests than the entire U.S. Interstate Highway system. National Forest Protection Alliance<\/li>\n
  • Recycling creates 6 times as many jobs as landfilling. Colorado Recycles<\/li>\n
  • Recycling glass instead of making it from silica sand reduces mining waste by 70%, water use by 50%, and air pollution by 20%. Environmental Defense Fund<\/li>\n
  • Recycling just one aluminum can saves enough energy to operate a TV for 3 hours. Eco-Cycle<\/li>\n
  • If we recycled all of the newspapers printed in the U.S. on a typical Sunday, we would save 550,000 trees–or about 26 million trees per year. California Department of Conservation<\/li>\n
  • The energy saved each year by steel recycling is equal to the electrical power used by 18 million homes each year – or enough energy to last Los Angeles residents for eight years. Steel Recycling Institute<\/li>\n
  • If every household in the U.S. replaced just one roll of 1,000 sheet virgin fiber bathroom tissues with 100% recycled ones, we could save: 373,000 trees, 1.48 million cubic feet of landfill space, and 155 million gallons of water. Seventh Generation Co.<\/li>\n
  • The U.S. is 5% of the world’s population but uses 25% of its natural resources. Environmental Protection Agency<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Leave it to Boulder to have one of the best recycling programs in the country! <\/p>\n

    DC is going to single stream recycling shortly. It will render my “Recycling Room<\/a>” slightly useless, but its still better than burning our trash<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Recycling and Environmental Facts: Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees, 2 barrels of oil (enough to run the average car for 1,260 miles), 4,100 kilowatts of energy (enough power for the average home for 6 months), 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60 pounds of air pollution. Trash to Cash Americans throw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":29,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}