Recycling
Serious Recycling Facts
View a list of acceptable recycling materials here.
Did You Know?
- The U.S. is the #1 trash producing country in the world at 1600 pounds per person/year this means that 5% of the world’s population generate 40% of the world’s waste
- We throw away enough aluminum cans each year to rebuild a commercial airline fleet every 3 months!
- Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run your TV for three hours
- We throw away enough paper away each year to build a 12 foot high wall from New York to Los Angeles, one billion trees worth of paper
- If all our newspapers were recycled, we could save 250,000,000 trees a year
- By recycling one ton of paper, we save 17 trees, 7000 gallons of water, and 463 gallons of oil
- We through throw away enough plastic soda bottles away each year to circle the earth four times
- 26,000,000,000 Plastic bottles are used a year of which 86% in up in the landfill
- 1500 Plastic bottles are thrown away each second
- 17,000,000 barrels of oil was used to produce these bottles, enough oil to fuel 100,000 cars a year
- Every week about 20 species of plants and animals become extinct
- Rain forest are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute
