Philadelphia is a wonderful and growing city. As a community, it is the job of the citizens of this city to set an example for the country. Recycling may seem like a small chore, but it is monumental in the grande scheme of our future. Putting recycling cans on the streets of Philadelphia to collect glass and plastic bottles would save phenomenal amounts of energy. Many people living in the city don't have access to recycling in their homes, and this city service would be an outlet for all of their previously used plastic and glass. Please take the time to sign your name on this petition, so that we can make the world a little bit greener.
Facts on Recycling:
These facts are just for fun, although they are true. Hopefully they will make many of you realize what a difference one can make!
The 36 billion aluminum cans landfilled last year had a scrap value of more than $600 million. (Some day we'll be mining our landfills for the resources we've buried.)
Americans throw away enough glass bottles and jars every two weeks to fill the 1,350-foot towers of the former World Trade Center.
Glass never wears out -- it can be recycled forever. We save over a ton of resources for every ton of glass recycled -- 1,330 pounds of sand, 433 pounds of soda ash, 433 pounds of limestone, and 151 pounds of feldspar.
If every American household recycled just one out of every ten HDPE bottles they used, we%u2019d keep 200 million pounds of the plastic out of landfills every year.
Styrofoam is un-recyclable- you can't make it into new Styrofoam. The industry wants you to assume it is- don't BUY it!
If only 100,000 people stopped their junk, mail, we could save up to 150,000 trees annually. If a million people did this, we could save up to a million and a half trees.
Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy used to make the material from scratch. That means you can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one can out of new material. Energy savings in 1993 alone were enough to light a city the size of Pittsburgh for six years. .
We save enough energy by recycling one aluminum can to run a TV set for three hours.
Taken from the Oberlin Recycles!, Oberlin College Recycling Program Website, http://www.oberlin.edu/recycle/facts.html
