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Recycle! check out Earth911.com
Recycling info for many different items. Household, auto, electronic…
- In 2006, Americans drank about 167 bottles of water each but only recycled an average of 23 percent.
- That leaves 38 billion water bottles in landfills.
- Bottled water costs between $1 and $4 per gallon, and 90 percent of the cost is in the bottle, the lid and the label.
- Eight out of 10 plastic water bottles become landfill waste.
- Plastic bottles can take up to 1000 years before they begin to decompose once buried.
- If everyone in NYC gave up water bottles for one week, they would save 24 million bottles from being landfilled. One month on the same plan would save 112 million bottles, and one year would save 1.328 billion bottles from going into the landfill.




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