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recycle people are earth is dying

-- Contributed by: Tyler fortenbury

this was good

-- Contributed by: anonymous

this kind of helped me, but if any one nos where i can find out ways to reduce pollution let me know :)

-- Contributed by: crazyfish

Thank you for your comment. The EPA website has up to date information on recycling in each state. This can be found here - http://www.epa.gov/epahome/whereyoulive.htm. Hope this helps.

-- Contributed by: K Pullen

This didn't help me. I was wondering how many of the 50 states recycle? and this didn't answer my question.

-- Contributed by: anonymous

i had to do a report and this helped me. Thank you!!

-- Contributed by: Casey Moss

i had to do a report and this helped me. Thank you!!

-- Contributed by: Casey Moss

Thank you for your comment. The EPA website (www.epa.gov) has a lot of essential reading. There are some links included within the article to the EPA and other websites to help readers find more information. Thanks for your interest in LoveToKnow!

-- Contributed by: K Pullen

This article should have links on the EPA and other websites where there reader can get more detailed information.

-- Contributed by: Tim Hawskins

Thank you for your comments - I am glad that you found the articles useful. There is still a long way to go with recycling and it is great that we're all doing our bit to help.

-- Contributed by: K Pullen

Woah, Very good. Well to be completely Honest I agree with Nicole. Were Not doing Such a great job.

-- Contributed by: lucre

Personally, i do not believe that the us recycling statistics are looking very good in the sence that we need to improve, more quickly than we are now

-- Contributed by: Nicole

We are trying out best, our school is like our home. In Muskegon, MI, Oakridge High School, we have started the Green Team, our first meeting is today and we are trying to get rid of styrafoam.

-- Contributed by: Shelby Cardinal

I think that us as United States Citizens, should start recycling more.These statistics need to be raised, so I am trying to do my part. We are writing a proposal in English and I am writing mine to the legislator to get all city ordinances to promote recycling. I think all the little bit works.

-- Contributed by: adrian canterbury

Please recycle everybody! It really helps our environment!!

-- Contributed by: Kelly

Hi Stephanie, thank you for your comments! KP

-- Contributed by: K Pullen

According to research conducted by the consulting group Northbridge Enviornmental for the Food Industry Allaince of New York State, the current bottle bill ignores 98 percent of the materials now going into our landfills,...

-- Contributed by: Stephanie

Go Green,...Everyone should recycle,...Dont you want to be the cleanist country?

-- Contributed by: Stephanie

Hi Marcus, thank you for your comment. You raise some important points. K Pullen

-- Contributed by: K Pullen

Regarding the claim that the U.S. is running out of landfill space, Tierney wrote, "A. Clark Wiseman, an economist at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., has calculated that if Americans keep generating garbage at current rates for 1,000 years, and if all their garbage is put in a landfill 100 yards deep, by the year 3000 this national garbage heap will fill a square piece of land 35 miles on each side. This doesn't seem a huge imposition in a country the size of America. The garbage would occupy only 5 percent of the area needed for the national array of solar panels proposed by environmentalists. The millennial landfill would fit on one-tenth of 1 percent of the range land now available for grazing in the continental United States. And if it still pains you to think of depriving posterity of that 35-mile square, remember that the loss will be only temporary. Eventually, like previous landfills, the mounds of trash will be covered with grass and become a minuscule addition to the nation's 150,000 square miles of parkland."

-- Contributed by: Marcus

GO RECYCLING!!! But how can we get more people to participate in it?

-- Contributed by: Kim K

i dont recycle but im trying to get my parents to recycle that way we can be more involved in our community.

-- Contributed by: cassandra

Effeciency through energy analysis is the best way to reduce a carbon foot print, using the word enormous footprint with recycling is quite like relating composting to the methane it produces. I agree though we need to drastically tighten up our system but we can not negate the positive aspects of recycling though loose generalizations. It is all about embodied energy - One aluminum can recycled = the energy to run a TV for 3 hours. Recycling Aluminum saves 95% of the energy used to make a new can, meaning you can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one out of virgin material. Energy savings in 1993 alone were enough to light a city the size of Pittsburg for 6 years. Not meaning to be a downer Big G, this stuff is my passion.

-- Contributed by: Autonomous Affects

Hi, thank you for your comment, you raise some really interesting points. Kate

-- Contributed by: K Pullen

I have a friend who drives her vehicle two and a half miles to drop off a small bag of recyclables that she thouroughly washed with hot water. Also, I watch every week, the large trucks that drive up and down my street collecting recyclables that I and my neighbors put out on the curb. Has anyone ever considered the enormous carbon foot print left behind by recycling?

-- Contributed by: Big G

Hi Naomi - take a look at the EPA website, they might be able to help. The web address is www.epa.gov

-- Contributed by: K Pullen

I am looking to compare recycling rates among states. Do you know where I should look?

-- Contributed by: Naomi

Hi Steve, thank you for your comment. The EPA website might have some information to help answer your question - the website address is www.epa.gov

-- Contributed by: K Pullen

Hi Steve, thank you for your comment. The EPA website might have some information to help answer your question - the website address is www.epa.gov

-- Contributed by: K Pullen

Can you tell me how much of your recyled material is sold to China?

Also how percentaged is keeped in the US?

Thank's for you time, Steve

-- Contributed by: Steve Morrill

I'm a Student Council sponsor, and I found our lack of recycling stations atrocious. We're starting a plastic/aluminum program next year!

-- Contributed by: Crystal

Hi,

I'm Sonia and I'm from Kalles Junior high, and our public policy issue is on recycling. I really like the information you provided. Thanks!

-- Contributed by: Sonia

It's informative, but there should be more information about the amount of trash that the US creates each year. I'm writing a dissertation on environmental impacts from recycling, and this was some good stuff about the EPA, but what about the statistics?

-- Contributed by: dana

This site is very interesting and very informative. I like to recycle and my family does to. It is nice to help the enviroment.

-- Contributed by: ed

An interesting site with interesting facts. I will most definitely save it for future research. The world's environment needs us to protect it!

-- Contributed by: Captain

Hi. i just need to vent while disperately looking for negative statistics about recycling. i am currently enrolled in high school, and would like to somment on the fact that our school doesnt have a single recycling bin, one dumpster, one "cans only" trash can in our school. i think it's crap and im currently writing a letter to my schools super intendent about the matter. :-I

-- Contributed by: Jessica

this site was very helpful...Thanks!!!

-- Contributed by: J,Keller

Hi. I really did find the information i needed for my report. This site was really helpful, and it's a shame the statistics though. Thanks!!

-- Contributed by: Kristen

Hi John, thank you for the comment. I think you will find some excellent sites listed in the above article that will be able to help you find some more information. Good luck finding the information you require.

-- Contributed by: K Pullen

Three questions: 1) How do the statistics on recycling break down (plastics, paper products, appliences, etc.)? 2) How many tons of post-consumer products are being kept out of landfills becuase of the recycling initiative? and 3) Are there any other sites out there that can help me teach others about the beinifits of recycling or statistics?

-- Contributed by: John

This article has some good information, but I'd liek to see more statistics about specific states and how well they recycle, and rankings etc. I am doing a poster on recycling for my Health class, so this was helpful. It's also cool because I live in Portland, OR, so it was cool to se our city mentioned!

-- Contributed by: Sarah (sophomore in HS)

thanks for all this info! this has helped me write at least 100 words of my 500 word essay! now i only have 75 to go. also, this has helped me understand more of why we should recycle. i always did want love to help the environment. thanks again!

-- Contributed by: anna m.

You are absolutely right AL, thank you for pointing this out. It should, of course, read '2 million tons' not 'times'. We apologize for any confusion. Kate

-- Contributed by: K Pullen

Could you please explain how the US accomplished a drop in solid waste of 2 million percent in one year? I think this may be a mistake:

"Although Americans generated 246 million tons of MSW in 2005, that figure is 2 million times smaller than the figure of MSW generated in 2004"

-- Contributed by: AL

i tjink peole need to teke consideration in wastings

-- Contributed by: laurita

Hi. Is it possible to find statistics on the production of 55 gallon drums in the USA annually, in steel, plastic and fibre? And to know how many of each of those categories are recycled? Paul@pfmolloy.com

-- Contributed by: Paul Molloy
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