Do you know where I can recycle plastic bottles in this area?
The recycling program here is quite good, with door-to-door collection of plastics, cans, bottles, and paper.
Most types of plastic are now recyclable in this city.
The University of Victoria has containers for
recycling paper in every classroom on campus.
A lot of the glass that is recycled here is ground up, and used to build roads.
Many of the plastic pop bottles which are recycled are used to make fleece jackets.
Someone once noted that one thing you cannot recycle is
wasted time.
I read somewhere that recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch television for 3 hours!
To save a typical tree, a stack of newspapers about 1.5 meters high must be recycled.
Aluminum, glass, and paper are the three materials most easy to
recycle.
Every time a ton of steel is recycled, it means 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,000 pounds of coal, and 40 pounds of limestone will not have to be mined from the Earth.
Nearly 65 percent of America's aluminum cans are recycled.
Despite the fact that it has an enormous vocabulary, the English language generally recycles a limited number of words over and over again.
Recycled glass uses only two-thirds the energy needed to manufacture glass from scratch.
Steel is 100 percent recyclable, and can be reprocessed almost indefinitely.
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out, and can be recycled an infinite number of times.
Air conditioners completely recycle the air throughout the Empire State Building every 10 minutes.
Long before the concept became popular in the West, recycling was being practiced on a daily basis in Burma.
In 1972, the state of Oregon passed the nation's first bottle recycling law.
Someone once said that advice is simply a way of recycling experiences we have had.
Discussion question: Do you recycle anything at home? What is it?
Find someone who recycles at home.