Recycling IQ Game

http://www2.ci.seattle.wa.us/util/RecyclingIQ/recyclingiqgame.swf

This is a recycling IQ game. It is sweet!

CR

Recycling Games and Fun

http://www.durham.gov.uk/kids/usp.nsf/pws/DCC+Kids+-+Games+-+Recycle+Fun

http://www.recycle-more.co.uk/nav/page570.aspx#

http://www.resourcefulschools.org/click_learn.html

Here are some really fun games that promote recycling!!

 EH, TH, and CR

Light Bulbs

*Every year Americans buy over a billion incandescent lightbulbs. That’s three acres of bulbs every day.
*A 60-watt incandescent bulb lasts about 750 hours; a fluorescent bulb with 1/3 the wattage will generate the same light and burn for 7,500 to 10,000 hours in five to ten years of normal use.
*Substituting a compact fluorescent light for a traditional bulb will keep a half-ton of CO2 out of the atmosphere over the life of the bulb.
By TH and EH. We got this from: http://www.oberlin.edu/recycle/facts.html#top

Newspaper Facts

*Every day America cuts down two million trees-but throws away about 42 million newspapers. That means the equivalent of about 500,000 trees is dumped into landfills every week.
*If everyone who subscribes to the New York Times recycled, we’d keep over 6,000 tons of pollution out of the air.
*It takes an entire forest–over 500,000 trees to supply Americans with their Sunday newspapers every week.

From: http://www.oberlin.edu/recycle/facts.html#top

Food and packaging

$1 out of every $11 Americans spend for food goes for packaging.
*Americans dump the equivalent of more than 21 million shopping bags full of food into landfills every year.

By TH and Eh. We got this from: http://www.oberlin.edu/recycle/facts.html#top

Rubber Facts

*It takes half a barrel of crude oil to produce the rubber for just one truck tire.
*Every two weeks, Americans wear almost 50 million pounds of rubber off their tires. That’s enough to make 3 1/4 million new tires from scratch.
*Producting one pound of recycled rubber versus one pound of new rubber requires only 29% of the energy.

From: http://www.oberlin.edu/recycle/facts.html#top

Garbage Facts

*In 1865, an estimated 10,000 hogs roamed New York City, eating garbage. Now, one of every six U.S. trucks is a garbage truck.
* In a lifetime, the average American will throw away 600 times his/her adult weight in garbage. If you add it up, this means that a 150-lb. adult will leave a legacy of 90,000 lbs of trash for his/her children.
*The average baby generates a ton of garbage every year.
*The landfill gas produced daily at Fresh Kills Landfill is enough fuel to heat 50,000 homes.

From: http://www.oberlin.edu/recycle/facts.html#top

Junk Mail Facts

*If only 100,000 people stopped their junk, mail, we could save up to 150,000 trees annually. If a million people did this, we could save up to a million and a half trees.

*The junk mail Americans receive in one day could produce enough energy to heat 250,000 homes.

*The average American still spends 8 full months of his/her life opening junk mail.

From: http://www.oberlin.edu/recycle/facts.html#top

Plastic

*Every year we make enough plastic film to shrink-wrap Texas.

*Americans go through 2.5 million plastic bottles every year.

*26 recycled PET bottles equals a polyester suit. 5 recycled PET bottles make enough fiberfill to stuff a ski jacket.

*In 1988 we used 2 billion pounds of HDPE just to make bottles for household products. That’s about the weight of 90,000 Honda Civics.

*If every American household recycled just one out of every ten HDPE bottles they used, we’d keep 200 million pounds of the plastic out of landfills every year.\

TH got this from: http://www.oberlin.edu/recycle/facts.html#top

Glass

*Americans throw away enough glass bottles and jars every two weeks to fill the 1.350-foot towers of the former World Trade Center.
*Most bottles and jars contain at least 25% recycled glass.

*Glass never wears out — it can be recycled forever. We save over a ton of resources for every ton of glass recycled — 1,330 pounds of sand, 433 pounds of soda ash, 433 pounds of limestone, and 151 pounds of feldspar.

*States with bottle deposit laws have 35-40% less litter by volume.

*If all the glass bottles and jars collected through recycling in the U.S. in 94 were laid end to end, they’d reach the moon and half way back to earth       

By TH and EH. We got this from: http://www.oberlin.edu/recycle/facts.html#top