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| A recycled can saves enough energy to run a television for three hours. |
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| Australians recycle almost 2 billion cans every year. |
| Australians recycle around 750 million steel cans each year. |
| Every year Australians use around 3.5 million tonnes of paper and cardboard. |
| Glass is made by melting silica sand, limestone and soda ash in a furnace at around 1,500°C. |
| Glass was discovered by the Phoenicians more than 5,000 years ago. |
| It takes 13 trees to make about one tonne or 40,000 pieces of paper. |
| It takes around 15,000 steel cans to make one tonne of recycled steel. |
| It takes around 872 Kg of iron ore, 488 Kg of coal and 41 Kg of limestone to make one tonne of steel. |
| Making one tonne of aluminium from recycled cans saves five tonnes of bauxite. |
| On average Australians produce 1 tonne of rubbish each a year |
| Once an aluminium can is recycled it's back on the grocery shelf within as a new aluminium can within 60 days. |
| Once an aluminium can is recycled, it’s back on the grocery shelf in 60 days as a new aluminium can . |
| One tree makes about 3,077 pieces of A4 paper. |
| Paper can usually be recycled eight times. |
| Plastic was actually invented in the late 1800s |
| Recycled glass melts at a lower temperature than the raw ingredients for new glass, which can cut energy use by up to 25%. |
| Recycling aluminium reduces greenhouse gases, saves tonnes of coal that would be needed to generate the electricity and uses less fuel to transport the materials. |
| Recycling steel cans saves 75% of the energy it takes to make steel from raw materials like iron ore and coal. |
| Some non-renewable resources - such as oil, gas and coal, were formed millions of years ago and are mostly found beneath the Earth’s surface. |
| Steel can be recycled over and over and still produce high quality products. |
| The Chinese made paper from rags, hemp and the bark of mulberry trees more than 2,000 years ago. |
| The earliest known paper was made from papyrus plants by the Egyptians in 2,200 BC. |
| The Egyptians invented hand blowing glass bottles in the first century BC. |
| The first paper used in Europe was made from rags and straw. These were replaced by wood chips when papermaking machines were introduced in the 18th century. |
| There are only limited amounts of non-renewable resources on and in the Earth. The total amount of each resource is known as a ‘reserve’. |
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