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Here are a few interesting facts about recycling:

1) Out of all the products we consume in the United States 80% of them can be recycled however the overall recycling rate is only 30%.
2) For every 1 ton of paper recycled 17 trees can be saved.
3) Americans consume approximately 97 million tons of paper every year (650 pounds per person). That is the equivalent of 1.64 BILLION trees which could be saved if all that paper was recycled.
4) Deforestation destroys 60,000 sq kilometers of forests each year, an area the size of Ireland.
5) Recycling all the newspapers read in the United States in a single year could save 250 million trees.
6) Plastic garbage, like bags and bubble wrap that ends up in the ocean, accounts for 1 million sea creature deaths a year. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch which is an accumulation of all this plastic garbage and is twice the size of Texas. 80% of that garbage could have been recycled.

As we can see from the above facts, recycling is really great. It can help reduce waste dramatically and really make an impact on saving the environment. However is recycling the answer?
Recycling expends a great deal of energy and other natural resources

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