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Why Recycle - 10 Recycling Facts that you should know !
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 One tree produces the oxygen for just 3 humans alive.
To produce 1 ton of virgin fiber paper, 17 to 31 trees are used.
About 3500 t of waste per day was disposed in the landfill in Bahrain in 2008.
More than 4000 t of waste per day will be disposed in the landfill in Bahrain in 2009.
At least 50% of the waste is recyclable. Disposal could be reduced to under 2000t per day.
You pay more for the Cola-Can than for the content. And it can be recycled 100%.
A PET bottle made out of recycling saves 75% of energy and resources.
Recycling paper causes 74% less air pollution and 35% less water pollution.
Recycling 1 aluminum can saves enough energy to run your TV for 3 hours.
Recycling 1 ton of aluminum cans conserves the equivalent of 36 barrels of oil.
ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS
Recycling is an easy step you can take to help the environment in three main ways:
Reduce the amount of rubbish sent to the landfill
Reusing and recycling items means that less waste has to be buried in the ground in landfill sites, plus we save valuable resources by turning waste into new products! Burying less rubbish means we have to build fewer landfill sites, which frees up another important resource: land.
Save enegry and raw materials
Recycling uses less energy than making items from scratch, for example, recycling an aluminum can saves 95% of the energy needed to make a completely new can.
Help tackle climate change
Reducing the energy used to make and transport products means less carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. Recycling also cuts the amounts of methane, another powerful greenhouse gas, which can be given off by biodegradable materials as they rot under pressure in landfill sites.
LANDFILLS
Landfills are massive holes in the earth and often located on the outskirts of cities and towns where the waste is eventually kept at and its contents slowly decompose over the course of several centuries. In the past, sites were simply covered with earth and the trash left to its own devices. Modern landfill sites, however, are better managed; they’re lined and capped to stop toxic chemicals from the trash leaking into the surrounding earth
and polluting nearby water sources. Built-in systems capture escaping gases and liquids, with some experiments now taking place to recapture energy released by the decomposition process. Suitable sites for landfills are becoming scarce, though, and concern still exists about the potential for leakage, especially groundwater contamination.
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