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Green Buildings

Recycling

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Why should you recycle:

  • To reduce global warming
  • To prevent air pollution
  • To solve the problem of the growing landfills
  • To prevent water pollution
  • To save energy

Houses that are from recycled materials:

This one is made from old boats!

This home is made from a silo. Have you seen the one outside of Urbana?

This Buddhist temple in Thailand is made from recycled glass bottles.

This home is from a plane.

This sail boat was made out of plastic bottles, and

sailed across the ocean!

If we don't recycle...

Top Reasons to Recycle (According to Princeton Univ.)

1.Recycling saves trees. Half the Earth's forests are gone, and up to 95 percentof the original forest area in the U.S. has been cut down.

2. Recycling protects wildlife habitat and biodiversity. Using recycled materialsreduces the need to extract natural resources such as timber, crude petroleumand mineral ores.

3. Recycling reduces the use of toxic chemicals. Making products fromalready refined waste materials reduces -- and often avoids altogether -- the needfor manufacturers to use toxic chemicals, essential when using virgin materials.

4. Recycling helps curb global warming. Recycling one ton of glass results in energysavings of more than 300% and lowers carbon dioxide emissions by 3.46 tons

5. Recycling reduces water pollution. Turning trees into paper is the most waterintensiveindustrial process in the United States. Paper recycling mills nearly alwaysuse less water and they don't pollute the water nearly as much.

6. Recycling reduces the need for landfills. Toxic pollution from landfills --including cyanide, dioxins, mercury, methane, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid andlead -- escapes into the air and leaches into groundwater.

7. Recycling reduces the need for incinerators. Municipal waste incineratorsspew out all kinds of air pollutants, and are often located in urban neighborhoods.

8. Recycling creates jobs and promotes economic development. The TexasNatural Resources Conservation Commission found that recycling added about$18.5 billion in value to the economies of 12 Southern states and Puerto Rico in1995.

Information from: Princeton University...

http://www.princeton.edu/~greening/downloads/recycle.pdf

If you don't recycle bad things will happen.

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David

Rachel

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The Manchester Commmunity aquatic

and fitness center.

•Re-used equipment: diving board, starting block, etc.

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