Fun Recycling Facts . . .
- Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run your television for 2 hours.
- Aluminum can be recycled an unlimited amount of times…even 200 years later.
- If we recycled every single newspaper after we read them, we would save over 2.5 million trees per year.
- Each person on the average use over 600 pounds of paper a year.
- The average person throws away four pounds of garbage per day.
- The EPA estimates that 75% of what Americans are throwing away could be recycled.
- In 2001 alone 26 cars were recyled every minute in the us.
- It is estimated that glass alone takes approximatly one million years to break down in a landfill.
- Solid waste disposal is the third largest municiple government expense after police protection and education.
- Each year steel recycling saves the energy equivelent of electronically powering about 1/5th of the households in the United States.