If you are interested in how long it takes the items we toss into our landfills to decompose, I found the following illuminating.
Read on:
Paper ................... 2 to 5 months
Orange peels ............ 6 months
Milk cartons ............ 5 years
Filter-tip cigarettes ... 10 to 12 years
Plastic bags ............ 10 to 20 years
Leather shoes........... 24 to 40 years
Plastic containers ...... 50 to 80 years
Tin cans ................ 100 years
Aluminum cans........... 200 to 500 years
Styrofoam ............... Never
Disposable diapers ...... Never
Suddenly recycling takes on a whole new light!
1 comment:
wow!
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