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IRS Boosts Mileage Rate by 8 Cents
The optional standard rate for calculating deductible operating costs for business vehicles has been raised from 50.5 cents per mile to 58.7 cents during the final six months of 2008, the Internal Revenue Service said this week. The IRS normally adjusts the rate once a year, but made the change because of soaring gas prices.

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Recycling Facts
 
-Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours.
-We use over 800,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year!
-27% of newspapers produced in America are recycled.
-Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into oceans kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!
-Every month, we throw out enough bottles and jars to fill a giant skyscraper.
-New Jersey has the highest recycling rate of all states; 56%!
-Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute!
-A typical family consumes 182 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water.  That is a lot of containers!  Make sure they're recycled!
 
Life of Litter
 
-Orange and banana peels:  up to 2 years
-Paper Bag:  1 month
-Cotton Rag:  5 months
-Cigarette Butts:  1 - 5 years
-Wool Socks:  1 - 5 years
-Plastic Coated Paper:  5 years
-Wood:  10 - 15 years
-Nylon Fabric:  30 - 40 years
-Leather:  up to 50 years
-Tin Cans:  80 - 100 - years
-Aluminum Drink Cans & Tabs:  100 years
-Plastic 6-pack Holders:  100 years
-Disposable Diaper:  500 - 600 years
-Glass Bottles:  1,000,000 years
-Plastic Bottles:  indefinitely
-Styrofoam:  indefinitely

 

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