Recycling Quiz

How many times can you recycle a can of cat food?
a. once
b. 10 times
c. 100 times
d. infinity (Answer)

Back in 1961, how much wood pulp was in a single diaper?
a. 1 gallon of wood pulp (Answer)
b. Diapers were made entirely of wood
c. 1 bushel

The Department of Agriculture found a way to make disposable diapers out of?
Leaves
News Paper

Magazine

Chicken feathers(Answer) 

Every ton of new glass produced generates ...... lbs. of air pollution?

27.8(Answer)

33.1

42.7

47.3

Using recycled glass to produce new glass products reduces air pollution by .....%?

1-13%

14-20%(Answer)

21-28%

29-35%

To manufacture 85 million tons of paper, how many trees must be cut down and processed?

1.4 billion trees (Answer)

3 billion

5.2 billion

6 billion

Over 5 billion aluminum cans are recycled each year. If laid end to end, these cans would form a line reaching from?

Orlando-Miami

LA-New York

Earth-Moon( believe it or not this is the Answer) 

New York-Paris

Recycling one ton of paper saves?

3 Trees

10 Trees

13 Trees

17 Trees(Answer)

For each $1,000.00 of fast food served, the solid waste created equals?

10 lbs.

25 lbs.

200 lbs.(Answer)

500 lbs.

For each $1,000.00 of fast food served, the solid waste created equals?

10%(answer)

30%

50%

100%

How many acres of forest could be saved by recycling half the world's paper?

10 million

15 million

20 million(Answer)

25 million

How many pounds of plastic are thrown out yearly by Americans?

500 million

5 billion

10 billion

20 billion(Answer)

"The Mac deal"

As I was looking for my dream Apple, I'm trying to choose between the MAC and the iPad. I came across Apples recycling program. I wasn't aware of their recycle program when I ran across so I thought I would take this opportunity and share with my readers.

Apple recycles everything from MAC, PC, to batteries. They remove all components that maybe reused or recycled. The metal and glass can be used in new products. They recycle most of the plastics by using the pellitized method to turn it into raw secondary materiel. By using these methods Apple recycles/recovers up to 90%  rate of recovery of the orginal weight of the product being recycled/reused. This reduces the need for raw materials which has lessens the impact on the environment......reduces your carbon footprint. 

If the product you send in happens to qualify for reuse program. Apple will send you a Apple gift card in the amount that your product was valued at to use for a future Apple purchase. If it gets recycled Apple will recycle it responsibly and the best part is at NO cost to you. 

Reycled jewelry

Here are some fun ways to make recycled jewelry 

How Recycling Works

Go Green: Different Ways To Go Green

I'm going through and checking out different companies and people and seeing how they go green. I'm going to highlight and share them with you.

If you know of a company or a person/family that isn't listed on here please send an email to aaclickb@gmail.com and put in the subject line GO GREEN!

7th Generation Fun Recycle Facts

Hey did you know if every household in the U.S. replaced one 12 pack of  300 virgin fiber bathroom tissue with our 100% recycled bathroom tissue,we could save: 


**2,000,000 trees 
**720 million gallons of water a years supply for over 5,700 family's of four
5.1 cubic feet of landfill space, equal to over 7,500 full garbage trucks.


If every household would switch to 7th Generation liquid laundry soap 320,000 barrels of oil, to cool and heat 18,400 homes for a year, or  the equivalent of removing 23,000 cars from the road for one year!  
   


If ever household would replace just one 120 count roll of virgin paper towel to 7th Generation with there 100% recycled (90% PCR) product we could save:


Over 1,000,000 trees 
over 360 million gallons of water, a year's supply for over 2,800 families of four, and
2.6 million cubic feet of landfill space, equal to over 3,900 full garbage trucks.


                                              


These are some of the things they do to help the earth stay green...  This is why my family only uses 7th Generation products.  
 
                                                




What do you think of Seventh Generation products? 

I'm changing my blog to talk bout something that is important to me and my family: recycling.

My mom has always been a advocate of recycling. She enjoys/embraces people calling her a tree hugger and making remarks to her bout being one. Heck she even calls herself one.

 At my house if you throw something away that can be recycled, you are in for a lecture bout my kid's, kid's kids. Yes, my great-grand kids and so on. That the earth needs to be cared for, that it is a living thing, that it be around if we continue on the same path as we are. My mom always brings home things that can be recycled when she is gone away.