Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Recycle!

Taken from a Dear Abby Article:

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!