Did you know?
- If all the morning newspapers read around the country were recycled, 41,000 trees would be saved daily and 6 million tons of waste would never end up in landfills.
- The top consumer of paper and paperboard per person in pounds for 1995 was the United States with 730 pounds per person. Since then the number has gone up!
- Every day American businesses generate enough paper to circle the earth 20 times!
- Americans throw away 25,000,000 plastic beverage bottles every hour!
- The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials.
- Americans discard enough aluminum to rebuild our commercial airline fleet every three months.
By recycling one ton of paper, you save:
- 17 trees
- 6953 gallons of water
- 463 gallons of oil
- 587 lbs of air pollution
- 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space
- 4077 kilowatt hours of energy
