LANDFILLS

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FACT;

• E-waste represents 2% of the trash in U.S. landfills, but equals 70% of overall toxic waste.
• 25 million tv's are thrown away each year. Three times the height of the empire state building.
• If you stacked all of the cell phones in the landfills, you could build a bridge to the moon
• It takes over a million yrs for a CD to decompose
• E-waste grows five times faster than the world's population.
• Around 80% of America's e-waste is exported to Asia.
• If you took the 2 billion batteries tossed yearly, you could make a battery to stick long enough to turn on your sp3 from the middle of the Earth!
• Seven years worth of empty printer cartridges is enough to build a life-size replica of the Battlestar Galactica.
• Computers deteriorate so slowly that are on the list of "Things that will survive the Apocalyspe" along with cockroaches!

Do you have e-waste you need to get rid of? DON'T YOU DARE THROW IT AWAY! RECYCLE !! Go to gcycle.org to find out how.
THEY WILL PAY FOR SHIPPING all you have to do is go their site and print off the printing label.