23 Percent Of Americans Don’t Recycle



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Quick fact: Recycling materials can take as little as 5 percent of the energy you’d wind up expending if you produced them from virgin sources, as is the case with aluminum, which means you not only conserve already-limited resources, but you also curtail potential atmosphere-warming carbon emissions—95 percent, in some cases.

But almost one-quarter of American adults don’t recycle, according to a new Harris Poll. And while you might think the young’…

Original article from: TreeHugger

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