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Recycling For Charities... Environment
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My Space is Green. Food scraps were 12.7% of waste generated 2008, while yard trimmings were 13.2%. Only 2.5% of all waste food was composted in 2008 the rest went to landfill or incinerators. 30,990 tons of food scraps were discarded in 2008, composing 18.6% of all materials going to landfills or incinerators. American per capita food waste increased to more than 1,400 calories per person per day in 2009, an increase of approximately 50 percent since 1974. The United States has more communities working ...
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Recycling For Charities... Environment
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My Space is Green. Electronics Impact on the Environment. It takes about six hundred pounds of fossil fuels and chemicals to create the chips for one personal computer. Seventy pounds of water are used to rinse out impurities in a single chip. The amount of waste generated to produce one laptop is close to 4,000 times its weight. When you throw away a 5 pound laptop you are throwing away roughly 20,000 pounds of waste. Recycling one million cell phones allows 35,274 pounds of copper, 772 pounds of silver...
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Recycling For Charities... Environment
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My Space is Green. August 7, 2013. Coalition to Update the Bottle Bill Files for 2014 Ballot. Advocates have been trying to get the Legislature to pass this bill for nearly ten years. Citing that an update for the 30-year old law is long overdue, the advocates have noted the law s proven success in reducing litter in our parks, and on our beaches and roadways. It has increased our recycling and reduced the cost of waste disposal for taxpayers in our cities and towns. Wednesday, July 3, 2013. The conferen...
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Recycling For Charity...Snapshot - Waste & Recycling
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My Space is Green. The average American office worker uses about 500 disposable cups every year. Every year, Americans throw away enough paper and plastic cups, forks, and spoons to circle the equator 300 times. Seattle, Washington, Portland, Oregon, Westchester NY, Berkeley, and Malibu California have all banned Styrofoam foodware. Laguna Beach and Santa Monica have banned all polystyrene (#6) foodware. Every year, Americans use approximately 1 billion shopping bags, creating 300,000 tons of landfill wa...
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Recycling For Charities...Charities Assisted
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My Space is Green. CHARITIES and COMMUNITIES ASSISTED. The mission of the Somerville Homeless Coalition is to provide homeless and near homeless individuals and families with individualized supportive services and tailored housing solutions with a goal of obtaining and maintaining affordable housing. The CitySprouts develop s. Beautiful, resource-rich school gardens in collaboration with public school communities , i. Ntegrated into the curriculum,. New England Center for Homeless Veterans (NECHV). CFCS'...
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Recycling For Charity...Snapshot - Waste & Recycling
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My Space is Green. Waste generated by Individuals:. It is estimated that on average, each person generates:. 0041 metric tons of newspaper. 0043 tons of glass. 0014 metric tons of plastic. 0012 metric tons of metal. 0009 metric tons of magazines per year. (paper? 0096 metric tons of organic per year. 011 metric tons of food waste per year. Consume 60,225 gallons per year: 165 gallons a day (water used either at work or home). America uses 345 Billion Gallons of Water a day. 39% is used for irrigation.
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Recycling For Charities... Landfill
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My Space is Green. Although the EPA reports that approximately 33% of municipal waste is recycled, municipal waste makes up only a small portion of all waste generated. These waste statistics also leave out waste that is burned or land filled in unpermitted landfills and incinerators, like burn barrels. In 2008, a survey of landfills found that 82 percent of surveyed landfill cells had leaks, while 41 percent had a leak larger than 1 square foot. Only 30% of people in the Southern region of the United St...
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Reycling For Charity... Environment
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My Space is Green. Why Use Re-usable Bags? Plastic bags don't biodegrade; they re expensive and hard to remove. 47 million tons of plastic trash reaches the sea each annually. When the small particles from photo-degraded plastic bags get into the water, they are ingested by filter feeding marine animals. Biotoxins like PCBs that are in the particles are then passed up the food chain, including up to humans.[7]. The Eastern Garbage Patch in the Pacific is made up of at least 80% plastic! The state of Cali...
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Recyling For Charities... Mission
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My Space is Green. The mission of Recycling for Charities. Raise funding for local charities and microfinance for community development overseas through recycling, while promoting recycling and education in our business communities. In addition, by drawing attention to the charities we assist, we hope to bridge connections between local and business communities. Humans in general have a basic instinctual need to help others, to foster that natural sense of humanity, community and solidarity. As globa...
