Using The Facts to Make Informed Decisions About Recycling
The website “Environment Green” has a myriad of interesting facts about waste and recycling. The age-old saying “knowledge is power” really rings true in the recycling realm because the more you know about what can be recycled and what happens to your waste, the more you can make informed decisions for yourself and your family. Rosendall Disposal, a Grand Rapids commercial waste recycling Company wants you to be informed so that you can make environmentally-friendly decisions to better our neighbourhoods.
Some of the recent facts posted by “Environment Green” is that the Hershey Company produces about “20,000,000 kisses each day using 133 square miles of aluminium to wrap them in; this material is recyclable and most of it ends up in the trash rather than the recycle bin.” Additionally, there are statistics that show that “recycling, or lack of it, has changed the face of the Earth is in regards to the highest point in Ohio US.” Specifically, “Mount Rumpke is the highest point in Ohio at over 1000 feet, it’s no Mount Everest; however, Mount Everest is not made up entirely of garbage. Mount Rumpke is literally a mountain of trash and is located in the Rumpke landfill.” This should impact the decision to recycle.
Some statistics are so startling that Rosendall Disposal feels it is imperative that you know them; for example, the rate of the Rain Forests’ being cut down is a staggering 100 acres per minute! As a whole, the United States recycles only about 28% of its waste today, which is doubled from what it was a decade ago. Commercial recycling service Grand Rapids wants you to make the decision to recycle so that the percent of waste the United States recycles increases.
But the issue of recycling seems to be a major focus in other countries when compared to the United States. For example, “in Europe, Austria heads the EU in its recycling efforts with approximately 60% of its waste being recycled.” In contrast, “Greece falls short with only 10% of its waste being recycled and the remaining 90% going to the landfills.” The sad fact is that many countries in the European Union as well as the United States efforts in recycling are more similar to Greece than they are to Austria. Other countries have low recycling rates as well; “the UK is estimated to recycle about 17.7%, and Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Luxembourg being not too far behind.”
Even people who consider themselves to be environmentally-friendly and fill their recycle bins to the max each week may not understand the amount of recyclable material that they may be throwing away.
For example, “just one quart of motor oil that is disposed of improperly can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water” and another fact is that motor oil gets dirty but does not wear out. Most people don’t know that oil can be recycled by re-refining it and then it can be used again and again and can help to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Rosendall Disposal, a decades-established commercial recycling service in Grand Rapids, Michigan wants to help you becoming more aware of what can be recycled. They will work with commercial waste disposal Grand Rapids to build the perfect waste and recycle plan for you and your family.
At http://www.rosendall-disposal.com/industrial-commercial-recycling-collection-grand-rapids-mi/ know benefits of commercial recycling service Grand Rapids plan to go green.
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