| Environmentalists and green technologists put a lot | | | | * Use the washing machine for 10 minutes? |
| of focus on recycling plastic. But then again, there | | | | * Light up a room with a 100-watt light bulb for |
| really is a need to get it done. Plastic is primarily a | | | | one hour? |
| petroleum-based product, and petroleum comes | | | | If recycling one glass bottle can do that, imagine |
| from the planet's depleting fossil fuels. While there | | | | how much energy we can save to power up |
| is so much emphasis given on recycling plastic, | | | | households when we bring a ton of glass to |
| some people tend to ignore the need of recycling | | | | recycling centers. Currently, only 2.5 million tons of |
| other materials, particularly recycling glass. | | | | glass bottles are taken to the recycling centers |
| Recycling skeptics insist that there is not a lot of | | | | every year, out of the 17 million that the glass |
| value to be had from recycling glass. They believe | | | | industry produces annually. Researchers have |
| that in recycling glass, more energy is wasted | | | | reported that doubling this amount of glass bottles |
| rather than saved, making the process totally not | | | | brought out for recycling every year can provide |
| worth it. Research, however, has proven these | | | | enough power for a small town. |
| skeptics wrong. There are actually a number of | | | | That is just power. We have yet to touch on the |
| benefits that we can get when we recycle glass, | | | | fact that we can recycle glass over and over |
| and saving energy is just one of them. | | | | without the glass losing quality. If we can do that, |
| The Britglass.org website released some pretty | | | | we can also save on the raw materials that glass |
| interesting facts about recycling glass and saving | | | | makers use in manufacturing glass. We can also |
| energy. Did you know that recycling a single glass | | | | create more jobs in recycling centers. If these |
| bottle can: | | | | are not true benefits that we can get from |
| * Keep a computer running for 25 minutes? | | | | recycling glass, then nothing is. |
| * Let us watch a colored TV set for 20 minutes? | | | | |