Monica+Martinez


 * As students how can we reduce our eclogical footprint on our local enviroment?**

For Talent 21 i have proposed to reduce the ecological footprint on our local enviroment by recycling ! each day we will recycle more and more. we will clean out our binders and recycle all our used but not needed papers.We can reduce our ecological footprint by recycling and reducing our waste. Each day we will recycle more and more, we will clean out what we can and, recycle all used papers that we do not need. To keep track of the recycling done we will be making graphs. This will help us save the Earth one step at a time. we also want to clen up our community. with that we will bring proof for cleaning Indian Oaks, and Eagles Man. this is were we live.

Recycling saves the Earth slowly but productively! If only everyone could jump in with us, students. we ask friends and family to help us out. since a little age we've recycled everything we seen ! Many familys do this but not enough. When we say recycling we mean papers, bottles, cans etc. this is so easy as 1 2 3....! you just need an extra trashcan and

every week a truck will pick up you rercyclbles. bottle caps help alot.! their are cancerous hospitals that say that "if you get 100 bottle caps, a kid can get kemotherapy" well thats not the only person you can save. you also save many others life. what hospitals do is recycle those caps.!
 * Bottle caps .......**

1,000 plastic bottle caps = a FREE chemotherapy treatment!

The high school band associate has established 5 treatments.

For those skeptics: yes, most site say it's a prank. However, this is the third confined person I know to participate in an attempt to decrease chemo expenses with bottle caps. Those folks are not related, and one is working for an infirmary. This could also, help recycle.  

           
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 * || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">An old aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery sill as the latest can, in as tiny as 60 days. ||
 * || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">old aluminum drinking cans are the nearly all recycled things in the U.S., but additional types of aluminum, such as siding, gutters, car components, storm window frames, and lawn furnishings can also be recycled. ||
 * || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Recycling one aluminum can keep enough energy to run a television for three hours -- or the equal of a half a gallon of gas. ||
 * || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Additional aluminum goes into drinking cans than any other creation. ||
 * || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Because so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste stream, according to EPA estimates. ||
 * || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now! ||
 * || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">There is no limit to the amount of times aluminum can be recycled. ||
 * || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year. ||
 * || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold! ||
 * || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A 60-watt light bulb can be run for over a day on the amount of energy saved by recycling 1 pound of steel. In one year in the United States, the recycling of steel saves enough energy to heat and light 18,000,000 homes! ||
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 * |||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down. ||
 * |||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Recycling a single run of the Sunday //New York Times// would save 75,000 trees. ||
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 * |||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year. ||
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year! ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space. ||
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 * || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away! ||
 * || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year! ||
 * || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator. ||
 * || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam coffee cups every year. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">  || **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 22pt;">Glass ** ||
 * |||| <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. All of these jars are recyclable! ||
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill. ||
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material! ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Every year, each American throws out about 1,200 pounds of organic garbage that can be composted. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world's people generate 40% of the world's waste. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The maximum point in Hamilton County, Ohio (near Cincinnati) is "Mount Rumpke." It is actually a mountain of trash at the Rumpke sanitary landfill towering 1045 ft. above sea level. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The US population discards each year 16,000,000,000 diapers, 1,600,000,000 pens, 2,000,000,000 razor blades, 220,000,000 car tires, and sufficient aluminum to rebuild the US commercial air fleet four times over. ||
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">An estimated 80,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using enough aluminum foil to cover over 50 acres of space -- that's almost 40 football fields. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute! ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water. ||
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A typical family consumes 182 gallons of soda, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That's a lot of containers -- make sure they're recycled! ||

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