1. RECYCILNG FACTS

2. Every hour, people throw away
about 2,5 million plastic bottles

3. Every day, the average person
produces about 2 kilograms of trash.

4. Every year, people throw away 2,8
million metric tons of plastic bags
and 230 million automobile tires

5. The process of reclaiming raw
materials and reusing them to
create new products is called
recycling

6. Recycling reduces the volume of
solid waster by enabling people to
use the materials again

7. While recycling uses some energy, it
also saves the energy that would be
needed to obtain and process raw
materials

8. As you know, matter in ecosystems
is naturally recycled through the
water cycle, carbon cycle, and other
processes

9. Any material that can be broken
down and recycled by bacteria and
other decomposers is biodegradable

10. Most recycling focuses on four
major categories of products: metal,
plastic, glass, and paper

11. Metal: One very common metal,
aluminium, is used to make soda
cans, house siding, window screen,
and many other products

12. Recycling metal save money and
causes less pollution than making
new metal

13. PLASTIC :When oil is to make
gasoline and other petroleun
products, solid materials called
resins are left over.

14. Glass: Glass is made from sand,
soda ash, and limostone mixed
together and heated.

15. Paper: It takes about 17 trees to
make one metric ton of paper.

16. Sentences True/false
Every hour, people throw away about 2,5 million plastic
bottles
True
Every day, the average person produces about 2 grams of trash. False
Every momth, people throw away 2,8 million metric tons of plastic
bags and 230 million automobile tires
False
The process of reclaiming raw materials and reusing them to create
new products is called recycling
True

17. Recycling reduces the volume of solid waster by enabling people to
use the materials again
True
While recycling uses some energy, it also saves the energy that
would be needed to obtain and process raw materials
True
As you know, matter in ecosystems no is naturally recycled through
the water cycle, carbon cycle, and other processes
False
Any material that can be broken down and recycled by bacteria and
other decomposers is degradable
False
Most recycling focuses on three major categories of products: metal,
plastic and paper
False