March 18
World Recycling Day
World Recycling Day falls on March 18 and premiered in 2018. It is announced by the London-based company The Global Recycling Foundation, which wants to highlight the important role that recycling plays for our planet.
Although recycling does not directly protect the environment, it does prevent its damage. Recycling saves resources, reduces energy consumption, emissions, and water usage in the production of new items. Therefore, recycling is key to a better future for our planet and humanity as a whole.
Recycling is the process of managing waste that leads to its further use. It involves the cyclic reuse of waste and its properties as secondary raw materials in the production process. Recycling is about bringing the material back into the production cycle, transforming it from otherwise unusable waste into a secondary input material usable in further production. Recycling allows for the conservation of renewable and non-renewable resources and often reduces the burden on the environment. The main benefits of recycling are the reduction in the need for new resource extraction, the use of waste instead of landfilling, and overall environmental conservation.
Do you know that:
Recycling one ton of paper saves 17 trees.
27,000 trees are cut down every day for toilet paper production.
95% of all information in the world is stored on paper, most of which is never reused.
Recycling a plastic bottle can save material for the production of, for example, carpets or fleece clothing.
Americans throw away 25 million plastic bottles every hour. Each bottle takes 500 years to decompose.
Thousands of marine animals die from ingesting plastic bags that resemble jellyfish.
Every year, Americans throw away enough aluminum cans to reach the Moon and back 20 times.
Recycling one ton of plastics can save up to 757 hectoliters of gasoline.
Since 2015, all residents of New York must recycle electronics, otherwise they face a $100 fine.
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy for 2 hours of TV viewing.
6 trillion kilograms of waste is dumped into the oceans every year.
In Finland, 90% of plastic bottles are returned for recycling, and almost 100% of glass bottles.
After recycling, it takes about 60 days for a can to return to the store.
In Germany, there is recycling of deceased pets.
Paper recycling was first recorded in Japan in 1031.
90% of plastic bags in the USA are not recycled.
Recycling the Sunday edition of the New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
