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Fun facts about recycling...

PAPER

To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.
During World War II when raw materials were scarce, 33% of all paper was recycled. After the war, this number decreased sharply.
If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them. A
supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket goes
through 60,500,000 paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are in the U.S.!!!
The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year! The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
When you smell a dump, what you actually smell is the paper in the dump!
Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person.
The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.
In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space.
In 1993, nearly 36,000,000 tons of paper was recovered in the U.S.--twice as much in 1980.
27% of the newspapers produced in America are recycled.
Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!
The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year.
Burning that same ton of paper would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide.
The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.

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RECYCLE FOR EARTH by KinderCycle

Date : 05.05.2016

Time : 8.30 - 10.30 am

Venue : Tadika Iltizam Cemerlang, Parit Raja

Greetings earthlings! We truly apologise for the delayed update :( We hope to receive your endless support and love. Without further due, let's get into it!

Our crew started the journey to the kindergarten from Perwira Residential College at 8 am. About 15 minutes later, the six of us were welcomed warmly by the children as soon as we stepped into the compound. Our project leader, Ahmad Faisham took charge of setting up the compound for the activities later on while the Syazwina and Mariana gathered and prepared the children for our very first activity.

Breaking the ice

"Hello everyone, we are KinderCycle!", we yelled on top of our lungs to make sure that all the attention is on us. The children placed stares on us, curious of who we are and what we are going to do next. Faisham initiated the self introduction followed the rest of the group members.

Talk Green

It is time to refresh on the basics! We kick-started the programme with a brief talk on the importance of recycling followed by the ways to recycle waste. Ya'qub highlighted on the effects of excessive waste around us. The children were given a treat when we decided to satisfy their eyes with the infamous animation, Boboiboy half way through the talk. The deviation really did help them in focusing on the rest of the talk.

Cycle Hunt

You heard it! It is Cycle Hunt, a treasure hunt-themed activity where the children were divided into groups of six. Each group were assigned to collect as much rubbish as they can from the compound. The group which collects the most rubbish will win the game and be awarded. After the collection, the children gathered the waste and separated the three main materials ; plastic, paper and glass. (No worries, there wasn't any glass around the compound, no individuals were harmed during the conduct of this activity.)

Let's Fold!

We carried on with an easy handcraft activity for the children. Each of our group members facilitated the children separately. We guided them in making a weaved bookmark using paper strips that were prepared beforehand. The children were surprisingly showing a huge amount of interest in this activity when the children would crowd all over the KinderCycle crew when we demonstrated the tutorial. They were also told to gift the bookmark to their mothers as Mother's Day was just a few days away.

Thank you and Sayonara

We wrapped up the programme with a closing ceremony conducted by Faez. We took turns in presenting the souvenirs to the children and the caretakers as well. The smiles on the faces of the children and their high-pitched laughs really did warmed our hearts and we hope to visit again in the future.