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Green Christmas Links
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Recycling during the Holiday Season - Some Tips from Repak: http://www.repak.ie/bring_banks.html http://www.repak.ie/Green_Christmas_2006.html Christmas Gifts from Cultivate (Temple Bar, Dublin): http://www.sustainable.ie/cultivate/xmas_gifts.htm Ecoshop (Kilmacanogue, Co. Wicklow): http://www.ecoshop.ie/ UK LINKS: Dreaming of a Green Christmas (from Friends of the Earth): http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_..._15112005.html New Year Resolutions (from Friends of the Earth): http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_..._08122006.html OTHER: The history of Santa Claus (from Wikipedia): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus |
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Posted: 01-01-2007 , 10:24 PM #2 | |
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Key Green Christmas facts (from Repak)
"Key Green Christmas Facts"
Of packaging waste alone, it is estimated that the increased consumer activity [at Christmas] generates an additional 80,000 tonnes of waste or 170 million used packaging containers. This is equivalent to - 20 million wine bottles 48 million aluminium beer cans 35 million soft drinks cans 13 million beer bottles 45 million plastic drinks bottles 2.5 million spirit bottles 4 million cardboard sweet boxes 2.5 million cardboard toy boxes 4 million rolls of wrapping paper. Recycling just one plastic bottle saves enough energy to power a 60 watt bulb for 6 hours It takes just 25 two litre plastic beverage bottles to make one adult size fleece jacket Each household will have generated circa 60 kilos of used packaging or 82,000 tonnes of packaging will have been consumed over the Christmas period Repak are targeting to collect and recycle 40% of the Christmas packaging waste generated over the holiday period. This is equivalent to 23 kilos per household or 32,000 tonnes of used packaging Last year, Repak recycled nearly 29,000 tonnes of used packaging, which was 67% up on the previous year In terms of volume, the 44 million litres of alcohol we will have consumed at Christmas, is enough liquid to fill 29 Olympic sized swimming pools If all the glass wine and beer bottles were laid out end-to-end, the resulting tower would stretch from Ireland to Sri Lanka, a distance of over 9,000 kilometres 23,000 tonnes of cardboard and paper packaging alone is generated, the weight of nearly 4,000 elephants If all the wrapping paper was laid out side-by-side, it would cover an area of 89 kilometres by 89 kilometres, which is enough to cover half the size of Leinster. Last year, Repak Green Christmas helped to grow packaging recycling to nearly 29,000 tonnes in December 05/January 06, compared to 17,000 tonnes the previous year - an increase of over 65% on the same period in the previous year or 9,000 tonnes over the target tonnages of 20,000 tonnes. Source: http://www.enviro-solutions.com/news-recycling.htm |
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