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Great Green Travel is participating in Blog Action Day

Bloggers Unite - Blog Action Day
Today’s earnings will be donated to The Nature Conservancy (www.nature.org)

One day a year we like to remind you (cause we forget too!):

Decomposition
Rates

Paper

 2-4 Weeks

Leaves

 1-3 Months

Orange Peels

 6 Months

Milk Carton

 5 years

Plastic Bag

 10-20 Years

Plastic Container

 50-80 Years

Aluminum Can

 80 Years

Tin Can

 100 Years

Plastic Soda Bottle

 450 Years

Glass Bottle

 500 Years

Styrofoam

 Never

I got these from: www.slocomhouse.com/recycling.html

This entry was posted on Monday, October 15th, 2007 at 1:42 pm and is filed under Website. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Great Green Travel is participating in Blog Action Day”

  1. Arun
    November 30th, 2009 19:39
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    Great post and the decomposition rates are shocking.

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