Recycling Fun 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.
