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Green Tip of the Week - 8/28/09

Glass Over Aluminum

The energy required to produce a single 12 oz aluminum can from virgin ore is enough to produce nearly two 12 oz glass bottles. So the next time you buy a 6-pack of beer opt for glass bottles over aluminum cans. The manufacturing energy conserved could power your television through two Sunday NFL games. If 10 % of beer drinkers replaced a 6-pack of cans with bottles, the energy saved could fly 30,000 Cowboy fans from Dallas to the Meadowlands to watch them take on the New York Giants.

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Look for the recycling symbol on toilet paper and tissues.

Look for the recycling symbol on toilet paper and tissues. The manufacturing process for making paper from other paper products is less wasteful than making it straight from trees.

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Green Tip Of The Week - 2/20/09

Recycle

If everyone in America simply separated the paper, plastic, glass and aluminum products from the trash and tossed them into recycling bins, we could decrease the amount of waste sent to landfills by 75 %. Currently, it takes an area the size of Pennsylvania to dump all our waste each year.

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