RECYCLING ONE TON OF PAPER SAVES:


17 TREES

60 LBS OF AIR POLLUTANTS

7180 GALLONS OF WATER

3 CUBIC YARDS OF LANDFILL SPACE

4100 KW HOURS OF ELECTRICITY

550 OUARTS OF OIL

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  • One drip per second from a faucet wastes 540 gallons of water a year.
  • It takes between 400 and 500 years for a Styrofoam cup to decompose.
  • It takes an orange peel six months to decompose.
  • Used aluminum beverage cans are the most recycled item in the U.S.
  • At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold.
  • A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose.
  • It can take up to 700 years for plastic to decompose in a landfill.

  1. If all the aluminum cans Americans threw away in one month were stacked on top of each other, they would reach the moon.
  2. Every ton of paper that is recycled saves about 17 trees.
  3. In 2009, American's generated 243 million tons of garbage.
  4. It takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday Edition of the New York Times.


Recycling Fun Facts

These recycling facts have been compiled from various sources including The National Recycling Coalition and the EPA. We make every effort to provide accurate information. We do not warrant or guarantee the information is 100% accurate.

  • AMERICANS THROW AWAY ENOUGH ALUMINUM EVERY MONTH TO REBUILD OUR ENTIRE AIR FLEET.
  • AMERICANS USE 100 MILLION TIN AND STEEL CANS EACH DAY.
  • AMERICANS USE 2,500,000 PLASTIC BOTTLES EVERY HOUR.
  • 75% of all water used in the household is used in the kitchen.
  • A full bath tub uses 70 gallons of water, a 5 minute shower only uses 10 to 20.
  • Over 73% of all newspapers are recovered for recycling.
  • Manufacturing recycled paper uses 60% less energy than from new material.
  • A dishwasher uses an average of 11 gallons of water each use.

An estimated 80,000,000 Hershey's kisses are wrapped each day. Wrapping that many kisses uses enough aluminum foil to cover over 50 acres of space. That's almost 40 football fields.

Today, almost 22% of the glass produced in the United States is recycled

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