WHO INVENTED RECYCLING, AND WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT?

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WHO INVENTED RECYCLING, AND WHY IS IT SO
IMPORTANT?
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• Recycling may seem like a relatively new concept,
  but researching who invented recycling shows that
  for centuries in the past, recycling was a way of
  life. People of the distant past didnt waste
  anything they could put to use. Animals were used
  as food, their hides used as clothing, ligaments
  were used for thread, and their bones used to
  create tools, weapons and even ornamental
  jewelry.
• Its estimated that today humans waste 40 million
  tons of food each year. In the past, it was just
  accepted that nothing could go to waste,
  everything was used. The people of the past would
  probably wonder how we could be such a wasteful
  society.

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E-Waste and E-Recycling

• In addition to 40 million tons of food being
  thrown out every year, 40 million tons computer
  and other electronics (e-waste) is also discarded
  every year, and only about 13 of that is
  currently recycled. Its estimated that over 70
  million computers are already sitting in
  landfills. As electronics continue to become
  obsolete when newer products are introduced, its
  easy to predict that the amount of e-waste not
  being recycled will continue to rise.
• E-waste isnt just a problem of too many items
  being discarded, its also a major threat to the
  environment and the health and safety of people
  everywhere. E-waste is loaded with toxic
  materials that collect in landfills and
  contaminates the soil and water, thereby
  contaminating the food sources and the limited
  supply of drinking water the Earth has.

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Recycling Saves Resources

• On average, Americans will use the equivalent of
  7 trees a year 680 pounds of paper that will
  mostly be thrown away and not recycled. It takes
  about 24 trees to make a single ton of printer
  paper. A single faucet dripping a drop per second
  will waste 540 gallons of water in a year. For
  each ton of glass that is recycled, a ton of
  natural resources are conserved. And recycling a
  ton of steel will conserve about 2,500 pounds of
  iron ore and 1,400 pounds of coal.

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• Recycling Saves Energy
• Recycled paper uses about 70 less energy than
  paper made from raw resources. Recycling a ton of
  plastic saves 1,000-2,000 gallons of gasoline.
  Recycling a single aluminum can saves enough
  energy to power an average TV for about 3 hours.
  Twenty recycled cans can be made with the same
  energy required to make one new can from raw
  materials.
• Instead of trying to determine who invented
  recycling, a better question may be when did
  society stop recycling and become the culture of
  the disposable? Items are no longer built to
  last, and people have grown accustomed to
  discarding things they no longer want, instead of
  recycling. Reusing and recycling conserves our
  limited resources, in turn using less energy,
  which then causes less air pollution. Recycling
  and reusing cleans up not just landfills, but
  also the air. When recycling and reusing become
  the norm instead of discarding items, the culture
  of the disposable will become a culture of
  conservation.

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