Did you know.....

~ Recycling conserves natural resources by substituting "secondary resources" such as glass, metal, plastic and paper for raw materials extracted from nature.

~ Recycling improves economic health, creating jobs in basic industries that pump resources back into the economy instead of into dead end landfills.

~ Recycling reduces air and water pollution, partly by reducing energy consumption and its byproducts, and partly by avoiding raw materials processing and its byproducts.

~ In 1991, the Great Wall of China became the second largest man-made structure in the world. The largest was the Fresh Kills Landfill, serving New York City.

Paper

~ We throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall twelve feet high stretching from Los Angeles to New York City.

~ If Americans recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save 25 million trees a year.

~ Every ton of paper recycled saves about 17 trees.

~ 75,000 trees must be cut to provide paper for ONE edition of the Sunday New York Times.

~ 100 million trees are ground up each year to produce junk mail.

~ More than 1/3 of all paper fiber used to make paper comes from recycled paper.

Metal

~ If we recycle all of the aluminum trash Americans throw away we could rebuild the entire U.S. airline fleet EVERY three months.

~ We throw away enough iron and steel to continuously supply all the nations auto makers.

~ About 566 steel cans are recycled every second.

~ All steel products can be re-melted and recycled into any other steel product.

~ When you recycle aluminum cans it uses 90-95% less energy than mining and processing Bauxite ore (where aluminum comes from).

Plastic

~Americans throw away 2.5 Million plastic bottles every hour! That's 22 billion a year!

~ Five recycled two - liter PETE bottles can be used to make one square foot of carpet.

~ Americans throw away enough plastic bottles each year to circle the earth four times.

~ Plastic is made of oil which is a non-renewable resource. When its gone, its gone for good!

Glass

~ Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to light a 100 watt light bulb for four hours.

~ Recycling saves 25-30% of the energy used to make glass from virgin materials.

~ A glass bottle can take over one million years to biodegrade.

~ Glass is 100 % recyclable in a true closed-loop system; there are no waste by-products.

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