Know Your Stuff

Global Warming

• Why you care about all this garbage: 11 Facts on Global Warming
• Global Warming Terms

Where do Barack Obama and John McCain stand on the Environment? Find out!

Saving Energy

• 11 Facts About Energy.
• Energy Conservation Terms you should know.
• Get the lowdown on Renewable Energy

Recycling and Reducing Waste

• 11 Facts About Recycling
• Talk Trash with these Recycling Terms
• Show off your expertise with the History of Recycling
• E Waste is a growing problem. Learn about it!
• E Waste Terms you should know.
• 11 Facts About Pollution
• Get the dirt. Learn about Major Pollutants.

Recycling Paper

• White paper, colored paper, envelopes, wrapping paper, cardboard, paper bags, egg cartons, newspapers, magazines, catalogs, phone books, soft cover books, milk cartons, juice boxes that are rinsed out can ALL be recycled!
• Recycling 1 ton of paper will save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy (enough to heat an average home for 6 months), 7000 gallons of water, and 60 pounds of air pollutants.
• 1 tree produces 260 pounds of O2 and eliminates 154 pounds of CO2.
• Paper from recycled materials causes 74% less air pollution and 35% less water pollution than virgin paper.
• Making 1 ton of virgin paper creates 84 lbs of air pollutants, 36 lbs of water pollutants and 176 lbs of solid waste

Recycling Aluminum

• Aluminum cans and foil wrap should be recycled - even the wrapping from Hershey Kisses!
• Recycling 1 ton of aluminum cans eliminates 4 tons of carbon emission.
• Recycling 1 can saves enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours or a 100 watt bulb for 20 hours. Recycling 1 ton saves enough energy to power the typical home for 10 years!
• Recycling aluminum results in 95% less air pollution and 97% less water pollution than producing it from ore.
• An aluminum can recycled today will be back on the grocery shelf in about 60 days or less.

Recycling glass

• Bottles and jars should be recycled
• Recycling 1 bottle saves enough energy to run a 100 watt bulb for 4 hours.
• 1 ton of recycled glass saves more than 1 ton of resources such as sand, soda ash, limestone, and feldspar.
• Recycled glass uses 40% less energy than using new materials
• Glass can be reused an infinite number of times

Recycling plastic

• Bottles, jars, and (in some places) bags can be recycled!
• Recycling plastic saves 2x the energy it takes to burn it.
• Recycling 1 ton of bottles saves 318 gallons of gasoline, enough energy to run a refrigerator for a month.
• Five soda bottles yield enough fiber for one extra large T-shirt.
• Last year Americans spent nearly $11 billion on over 8 billion gallons of bottled water, and then tossed over 22 billion empty plastic bottles in the trash.
• In the US alone 70 million bottles of water are consumed each day which drains 1.5 million barrels of oil over 1 year. Nalgenes all the way!

Recycling Metal

• Canned food, pet food, aerosol cans, paint cans, etc, household metal (wire hangers, pots, tools, curtain rods, large metal appliances) can all be recycled!
• Recycling 7 steel cans saves enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for 26 hours
• Recycling tin and steel cans saves between 60-74% of the energy used to produce them.