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batteries and the environment

ylee — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:38:58 +0000

http://www.unpluggedliving.com/environment-friendly-rechargeable-batteries/

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energy and recycling

ylee — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:32:43 +0000

1Each ton of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy and 7000 gallons of water!

Energy is important because we use energy for everything. We need energy to live, and do anything in our life. Energy is important from light bulbs to batteries to humans daily activities. Recycling conserves natural resources, and everything that we do affects our environment. It affects the global climate change. That’s why we should save energy, recycle, and take care of our world.

recycling facts

ylee — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:23:55 +0000

Recycling is good for our environment because making new paper out of recycled goods saves 64% of energy and 58% of water. Americans waste about 500,000 newspapers every sunday! Each yeah, more than 900 million trees are wasted to provide materials. Think of how much we’d save the enviroment if we did less of these things. Even though these are only a few facts about how bad it is if we don’t recycle, there still are more which add up to even more of environmental problems!

enviromental project

ylee — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:19:04 +0000

Hello. My partner and I are doing a project on recycling things that people don’t normally recycle so we are recycling batteries, cellphones and chargers. We know to recycle our water bottles, plastics, papers and others but when our cellphones are dead, we don’t know what to do with them. They’re probably in the drawer somewhere, why put it there when you can help our environment? And after recycling cell phones, you probably have a useless charger and some dead batteries, so we can recycle those too!

christmas trees- the enviroment

ylee — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:06:03 +0000

One of the blogs I’ve read about enviromental problems and recycling is one about Christmas trees. I know that on Christmas, I’ve always had a fake tree instead of a real one because of the cost. What good is a real tree if your only going to use it for only one day and then throw it out? It’s kind of like Halloween, you only buy a costume for one day of the year and then after Halloween, you throw it out because you probably won’t fit into it the next year.

In the website, it says that fake christmas trees are more dangerous than real ones. That was surprising for me because I always thought that if we used fake trees we would save our enviroment. It said that fake christmas trees start fires, on it’s own. Fake trees are made out of PVC (polyvinyl chloride). The PVC in fake trees cause cancer and causes other dangers. But real trees are recyclable.

This website surprised me because I just always thought artificial trees were better to use, but in the website it said that even though we may think that artificial trees are better, they bring danger to the family inside the house. Plus, real trees are also recyclable so we really benefit from real trees. We get a christmas tree without a fire starting, and we help the enviroment.

http://schreinervideo.blogspot.com/2007/01/christmas-tree-safety-and-recycling-ksl.html