Sidney First Recycles!

Numbers 35:34 "Do not defile the land where you live", says the Lord.

• A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days.  That's closed loop recycling at its finest!
• Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours, or the equivalent of a half gallon of gasoline. 
• To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down. 
• Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
• If you had a 15-year old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them.  A supermarket could use all of them in under an hour!  This means in one year, one supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags!  Imagine how many supermarkets there are in the USA!
• An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now! 
• There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can could be recycled.
• The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years?
• When you smell a dump, what you're actually smelling is the paper in the dump!
• Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!
• Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.
• Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 styrofoam coffee cups every year
• Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour!  Most of them are thrown away!
• Every month we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper.  All of these jars are recyclable. 
• The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours!  It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials. 
• More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 spare miles of tinfoil.  All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.
• McDonalds saves 68,000,000 pounds of packaging per year just by pumping soft drink syrup directly from the delivery truck into tanks in the restaurant, instead of shipping the syrup in cardboard boxes! 

For more information on recycling at Sidney First or to become part of
our Recycling Team, please contact Michelle Stephenson
at williamns22@earthlink.net.

Sidney First Recycles!

Numbers 35:34 "Do not defile the land where you live", says the Lord.

• A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days.  That's closed loop recycling at its finest!
• Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours, or the equivalent of a half gallon of gasoline. 
• To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down. 
• Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
• If you had a 15-year old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them.  A supermarket could use all of them in under an hour!  This means in one year, one supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags!  Imagine how many supermarkets there are in the USA!
• An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now! 
• There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can could be recycled.
• The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years?
• When you smell a dump, what you're actually smelling is the paper in the dump!
• Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!
• Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.
• Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 styrofoam coffee cups every year
• Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour!  Most of them are thrown away!
• Every month we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper.  All of these jars are recyclable. 
• The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours!  It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials. 
• More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 spare miles of tinfoil.  All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.
• McDonalds saves 68,000,000 pounds of packaging per year just by pumping soft drink syrup directly from the delivery truck into tanks in the restaurant, instead of shipping the syrup in cardboard boxes! 

For more information on recycling at Sidney First or to become part of
our Recycling Team, please contact Michelle Stephenson
at williamns22@earthlink.net.