The best kind of paper...

...is RECYCLED PAPER

Stats:
- Paper made from recycled paper uses 70% less energy
- 75% of each tree that is cut down for paper is not used in a paper product
- One ton of paper requires the use of 98 tons of various resources


**Sorry about the short post this week, it's exam cramming time over here. Insanium in the cranium!

Did you know?

(Some random facts about recycling that you might not yet know about recycling and why it's so a FAB-U-LOUS thing to do)

…About 40% of all the pure water in your house is flushed down the toilet.

…One aluminum can when recycled, can produce enough energy to run a TV set for three hours. That’s one Ugly Betty and two Grey’s Anatomys!

...Reusing a grocery bag for a shopping trip can save about 60,000 trees.

…Every day, more than 20,000,000 Hershey’s Kisses are wrapped. This involves 133 square miles of tinfoil, all of which is recyclable.

…If you walk a mile along the average highway in the United States you will see approximately 1457 pieces of litter.

…Each week’s Sunday paper is responsible for the loss of 500,000 trees.

…Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute!
That’s one hundred acres every sixty seconds!

…Americans use more than 67 million tons of paper per year--about 580 pounds per person.

Gooodness! That’s enough to make my head spin!
Please please please recycle.
Save your planet. It’ll thank you later :)


Sources: Recycling Revolution, Buzzle.com, Resourceful Schools