What does a coffee company do with unsold coffee? Recycle it of course! Nestle Japan Ltd. has been recycling unsold instant coffee that had not been sold within three years of production for more than three decades. The coffee is mixed with hot water and coffee bean extract and then dried to make new coffee powder. The company then stamps a new expiry dates on the product. Nestle Japan says it had stopped using products collected from store shelves in 2000 but continues to recycle its own unsold stockpiles.

North America has 8% of the world’s population,
consumes 1/3 of the world’s resources,
and produces 1/2 of the world’s garbage!!

Australia is the fattest country in the world.40% of Victorians are overweight. On an average an Aussie opens the fridge door 22 times a day!

In 1900, only 160 million people -one tenth of the world’s population - were urbanites.
	By 2006, half the world (3.2 billion people) will live in urban areas – a 20-fold increase.

Recycling 1 ton of glass saves the equivalent of 39 litres of oil.
Recycling glass reduces air pollution by 14-20%.
glass saves 25-30% of the energy used to make glass from virgin materials.
Since glass does not break down, a bottle thrown in a landfill today would still be around in the year 3000.

Every ton of paper recycled saves 1439 litres of oil