Recycling Facts
Twenty cans can be produced out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one new can.
Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
By recycling steel for one year, enough energy is saved to supply Los Angeles with electricity for almost 10 years.
Five recycled plastic bottles make enough fiberfill to stuff a ski jacket.
Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste created 1 job; land filling the same amount creates 6 jobs; recycling the same 10,000 tons creates 36 jobs.
Americans throw away enough office and writing paper yearly to build a wall 12 feet high stretching from Los Angeles to New York City.
If everyone in the U.S. recycled just one tenth of their newsprint, we would save the estimated equivalent of about 25 million trees a year. One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.
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