The energy saved from recycling a single aluminum can will operate a television for three hours! Twelve million barrels of oil is used to make 88.5 billion plastic bags consumed in the United States. It takes four times more energy to make paper bags. Go for cloth bags. It takes 26 bottles of water to produce the plastic container for a one-litre bottle of water, and doing so pollutes 25 litres of groundwater.
  June 2013 Vol. 2 - Issue 9
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   Cover Story - Plastic Planet: Boon turns bane

It’s the new immortal invented by man. You can use it and then throw it away. But you can never make it perish or die. Welcome to the world of plastic. Making it, largely using petrochemicals and then recycling it or discarding it— all are equally harmful to the environment. But does one ever pause before buying that extra bottle, that mug, that bucket? Going by the amounts of plastic being manufactured, used and then discarded in the country, the time to pause and think is now. ...Read More >>


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