{"id":5922,"date":"2014-07-02T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T23:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2014-07-02T16:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T23:00:48","slug":"question-of-the-week-recycled-water-bottle-energy-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2014\/07\/02\/question-of-the-week-recycled-water-bottle-energy-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week: Recycled Water Bottle Energy Savings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bottle-isolated-win-me\"<\/a>Time for our Question of the Week!<\/p>\n

The first person to respond with the correct answer will win\u00a0a reusable 20 oz. OSU water bottle.<\/p>\n

Submit your answer here (\u201cLeave a Reply,\u201d below<\/strong>) or on our\u00a0Facebook<\/a> page. Only one post per person, please.<\/p>\n

Question of the Week<\/h3>\n

Recycling saves energy, as it costs less to recycle a material than it does to make it from scratch. If you were to recycle five plastic water bottles, how many hours would you be able to power a 60 watt CFL light bulb from the energy savings?<\/span> (Hint: The EPA has a calculator for this on their website.)<\/p>\n

Answer<\/h3>\n

You could power a 60 watt CFL bulb for 48.9 hours with the energy savings from recycling five plastic water bottles.<\/p>\n

The EPA reports<\/a> that only 9% of the total plastic waste generated in 2012 was recycled. Excluding transportation energy, the US used approximately 17 million barrels<\/a> of oil in the production of water bottles, enough to fuel a million American cars for a year. Combined with the fact that bottled water is more expensive than tap, the option does not appear to be a very sustainable one.<\/p>\n

While important to recycle, it is even more important to reduce the amount of waste being produced in the first place. By using a durable reusable water bottle, you can save resources and money.<\/p>\n

And congratulations to Lisa for winning this week’s Question!<\/p>\n

Time for our Question of the Week!<\/div>\n
The first person to respond with the correct answer will win a reusable OSU cold cup with straw.<\/div>\n
Submit your answer here (\u201cLeave a Reply,\u201d below) or on our Facebook page. Only one post per person, please.<\/div>\n
Question of the Week<\/div>\n
– See more at: http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/2014\/06\/question-of-the-week-ice-cream-containers\/#sthash.hnUTYXnF.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time for our Question of the Week! The first person to respond with the correct answer will win\u00a0a reusable 20 oz. OSU water bottle. Submit your answer here (\u201cLeave a Reply,\u201d below) or on our\u00a0Facebook page. Only one post per person, please. Question of the Week Recycling saves energy, as it costs less to recycle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5035,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292115,1292119],"tags":[626631,608247],"class_list":["post-5922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-recycling","category-waste-reduction","tag-recycling-question-of-the-week","tag-waste-reduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}