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Recycling is fun and it can help also to reduce waste, so if you think that some garbage is useful recycle it. Lets start with simple changes. Here some fun facts about recycling.

Aluminum recycling facts
- A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as new can, in as little as 60 days. That’s closed loop recycling at its finest.
- Used aluminum beverage cans are the most recycled item in the United States. But other types of aluminum, such as siding, gutters car components, can be also being recycled.
- Recycling aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV fro three hours- or equivalent of a half gallon of gasoline.
- More aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now.

Plastic Recycling Facts
- Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many thousand of sea creatures every year.
- Recycling plastic bags twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.

Glass Recycling Facts
- A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose-and even longer if it’s in the landfill.
- Mining and transporting raw materials for glass produces about 385 pounds of waste for every ton of glass that is made.

Solid Waste and Landfill
- About one-third of an average dump is made up of packing materials

Miscellaneous Recycling Facts
- Motor oil never wears out it just gets dirty. Oil can be recycled, re-fined and uses again, reducing our reliance on imported oil.
- On average each year one of us produces 4.4 pounds of solid waste each day. This adds up to almost a ton of trash per person, per year.
- Rain forest are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute.