Our last day in Houston was spent at Chris Seay's church in the downtown area. The children's area is in need of a new floor, and the church is doing something very creative. They are putting down a recycled cork floor! The church congregation has been bringing in bags and bags of corks to donate towards this floor for weeks. We spent a few hours on Monday sitting and sorting thousands of corks for this project. It was actually lots of fun :) 
By using a recycled product for this, the church is not only saving lots of money but also helping the environment. Here are some facts Nelson dug up online about recycling and how wasteful Americans are:
1.) The United States is also the world’s largest trash producing country at 1,609 pounds of trash per person per year.
2.) Statistically the United States recycles just about 28% of its waste today, which is doubled from what it was a decade ago.
3.) Plastic material being dumped into the ocean is responsible for killing u to a million sea creatures yearly.
4.) If we were to wait for a glass bottle to decompose after throwing it away today, we would have to wait approximately 4000 years.
5.) The empty aluminum can is worth about 1 cent.
6.) Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to keep a 100-watt bulb burning for almost four hours or run your television for three hours.
Pretty crazy facts, huh? Yay for Ecclesia being environmentally friendly and allowing the entire congregation to help with re-flooring the children's area!
1 comment:
That is too neat! If you need someone to drink some wine for you to get more corks, let me know :)
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