The Battle of Cold Harbor was a sharp defeat for the Union and a blow to Northern morale, but Grant was not ready to give up. He turned away from Lee and Richmond and headed in a new direction, toward Petersburg.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: Recycling saves energy and resources For every ton of paper made from recycled materials saves 17 trees, 6.953 gallons of water, 463 gallons of oil, 587 pounds of air pollution, 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space, and 4,077 kilowatt hours of energy.
Recycling 1 ton of plastic saves almost 4 barrels of oil. To improve the plastics recycling process, the plastics industry developed a coding system in 1988. Recyclable plastics contain the universal arrows-in-a-triangle recycling symbol and a number, 1 through 7. This number represents the specific type of resin that composes the plastic, and is useful in grouping and recycling plastics with similar properties.