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DECOMPOSITION TIME

Paper:2-4 WeeksBanana Peel:3-5 WeeksWool Cap:1 YearCigarette Butt:2-5 YearsDisposable Diaper:10-20 YearsHard Plastic Container:20-30 YearsRubber Boot Sole:50-80 YearsTin Can:80-100 YearsAluminum Can:

200-400 YearsPlastic 6-pack Holder:450 YearsGlass Bottles:unknown? forever?Styrofoam cupunknown? forever?

Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management

Procedure of The Yagya( 3 R's Rule):

The actual way is to avoid above items. But our life style is designed such a waythat its hard to avoid lot of things. So use the 3 R's rule. REDUCE, REUSE AND RECYCLE.Before you throw away think about the Earth and reduce, reuse and recycle.

REDUCE:Best thing is to Reduce the above items if you can.Prefer items which have low decomposition life.Find alternate: use glass or steel cup instead foam or plastic at home. (thoughglass has long decomposition life it can be recycle multiple times.)If you have choice buy in big can or jar instead of small.Use cloth (Thaily) bag for shopping.Use cloth napkins instead of paper towels.These are just few samples you can find more on different websites.

REUSE:Before throwing away anything, think about how it can be reuse. Try to Reuse eachitems if you can.Use water bottle, plastic cup, plastic bag , aluminum foil etc. multiple timeUse both side of printing paper before recycle it.Donate cloths, furniture appliances to charity.

RECYCLE: In most cases, making products from recycled materials creates lessair pollution and water pollution than making products from virgin materials.

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When the materials that you recycle go into new products, they don't go intolandfills or incinerators, so scarce landfill space is conserved. Recyclingcreates jobs, saves valuable resources and is simple to do.Once you done with reuse recycle it.

Items can be recycles are:

Aluminum (can, foil), Glass (jar, bottles),tin cans, all kinds ofpaper, plastics, brass ,copper, steels, car batteries, tires, motor oil etc.

Results Of the Yagya:

The energy saved form one recycled aluminum can will operate a television setfor three hours or to light one 100 watt bulb for 20 hours

Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy used to make the material fromscratch. That means you can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the sameenergy it takes to make one can out of new material

Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74% of the energy used to produce them fromraw materials.

If everyone in the U.S. recycled just 1/10 of their newsprint, we wouldsave the estimated equivalent of about 25 million trees a year.

1 ton of recycled paper saves 3700 pounds of lumber and 24,000 gallons ofwater.1 Ton of Recycled Paper = 53.2 million BTU's1 Ton of Recycled Paper = 380 gallons of Oil

Paper made from paper instead of virgin fiber requires up to 70% less energy.

1 ton of recycled paper saves 3700 pounds of lumber and 24,000 gallons of water.

ThanksKetan PatelOn Behalf of GP of Charlotte, NC