Marriott Hotels have joined the Green Evolution by committing to being more eco-friendly. Their eco green concept is to recycle their gently used bedding (sheets), by donating them to the most needy. Homeless citizens can sleep easier with the donated Marriott Hotel sheets. This is an example of everyone working together to make our planet a better place to live. Job well done Marriott!
Newark Airport Marriott Hotel
Recognized for Teaming Up with Green Recoverings to Recycle Discards....
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Make Recycling A Way of Life
Facts & Tips
In 2007, Americans in one state alone threw more than 7 billion bottles and cans in the trash instead of the recycling bin. Here are some recycling facts and tips to help you think twice before trashing your recyclable beverage containers.
Recycling Facts:
An average family's household throws away over 34 pounds of plastic water and soda bottles each year.
Every 90 days a recycled aluminum can makes its way back
on the shelf as something useful.
80-100 years - that's the lifespan of an aluminum can that gets tossed into the trash instead of a recycling bin.
700 years - that's how long a trashed plastic bottle will sit in a landfill taking up space and refusing to degrade.
1 Million Years - Put a glass bottle in a landfill and that's how long it'll sit there doing nothing. Recycle it and it can live forever.
Products Made from Recycled Bottles and Cans:
Plastic - recycled material products made from Plastic Bottles:
T-shirts: Fourteen 20 oz. plastic bottles yield enough fiber for an extra large T-shirt.
Carpet: It takes 14 20 oz. plastic bottles to make one square foot of carpet.
Fleece Sweater: It takes 63 20 oz. plastic bottles to make a sweater.
Jacket Fiberfill: Fourteen 20 oz. plastic bottles yield enough fiberfill for a ski jacket.
Sleeping Bag Fiberfill: It takes 85 20 oz. plastic bottles to make enough fiberfill for a sleeping bag.
Glass: - recycled material products made from Glass Bottles:
Glassware
New glass containers
Decorative home decor
Fiberglass Insulation
Tile
Aluminum:- recycled material products made from Aluminum Cans:
Picture frames
Decorative home decor: Bowls, vases, etc.
Baseball bats
Courtesy of "The Green Gift Guide"
Sunday, December 27, 2009
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