Top 10 facts about Industrial Recycling
Industrial
recycling has become a great industry today and it comes with many good
benefits. It is good for the environment and for saving the planet. Many
industrial companies started to recognize this concept and started recycling
because it is also good for them. The main motto – to recycle, reduce and
reuse, is now an integral part of the philosophy of any company that is
concerned for the environment and wants to contribute towards better world.
When
you are looking and the industrial recycling
as a part of the big picture, it may look like one company that contributes in
a positive way does not make such a difference. However, that is not true
because commercial and industrial companies are very different. Industrial
companies use a lot more materials on daily basis. Different companies recycle
in different ways. For example, construction businesses are using materials
that are recycled for building houses and buildings without using natural
resources.
Recycling
today makes a lot of sense. This is because it completely removes the waste and
then turns it right back to numerous useful products. Recycling also reduces
the large amounts of waste that goes to landfills and it saves money.
The following are the top ten facts
about industrial recycling.
- Industrial waste contributes
towards half of the total waste that the planet generates every year.
Almost 50% of the entire industrial waste
ends up spilled on landfills every year.
- The electronic waste also known as
e-scrap is currently the fastest growing type of industrial waste in the
United States.
- Recycling aluminum requires 96%
less energy in comparison to making aluminum from completely raw
materials. Also, recycling one can of aluminum saves enough energy for one
bulb of 100-watts to burn for four straight hours.
- Each year Americans throw away
almost five million tons of office paper.
- Every person in the USA is using
almost seven hundred pounds of paper per year. The amount of office paper
that is thrown away every year is enough for building four-meter high wall
from New York to Los Angeles.
- Steel is the most recycled material
in US and the amount that is thrown away each year is enough for constant
supply of all automakers in USA.
- Steel cans are often called tin
cans, but less than 0.10% is tin that is recycled.
- Americans are throwing away over 25
million recyclable plastic bottles every hour.
- Glass can be easily recycled over
and over again without losing any of its purity of quality, because glass
is 100% recyclable material. Glass never corrodes or deteriorates. It can
be recycled and reused for making insulation, fiberglass, flooring and
tiles, as well as for decorative purposes.
- Recycled newspapers can save up to
60% of the energy that is needed for brand new newsprint. Over ten million
tons of newsprint is being thrown each year only in the US. Amazing fact
is that almost eighty thousand trees are needed for production of paper
for the weekend edition of New York Times.