350,000
aluminum
cans are
produced
every minute
More
aluminum
goes into
beverage
cans than any
other product
An aluminum
can that is
thrown away
will still be a
can 500 years
from now
Once an
aluminum can
is recycled, it
can be part of
a new can
within six
weeks
Every month,
we throw out
enough glass
bottles and
jars to fill up a
giant
skyscraper
The energy
saved from
recycling one
glass bottle can
run a 100-watt
light bulb for
four hours.
A modern glass
bottle would take
4000 years or
more to
decompose –
and even longer
if it’s in a landfill.
It also causes
20% less air
pollution and 50%
less water
pollution than
when a new bottle
is made from raw
materials.
Recycling a
single run of
the Sunday
New York Times would
save 75,000
trees
If all our
newspaper was
recycled, we
could save about
250,000,000
trees each year
When you
smell a dump,
what you’re
actually
smelling is the
paper in the
dump
Americans
use
2,500,000
plastic
bottles
every hour
Plastic bags and
other plastic
garbage thrown
into the ocean
kills as many as
1,000,000 sea
creatures every
year!
Every year
we make
enough
plastic film
to shrink-
wrap Texas
During the winter, you can save as much as 3% of the energy
your furnace uses simply by lowering your thermostat one
degree F (if it’s set between 64o F and 72o F)
Most cars on U.S. roads carry only one person. We have so
much extra room in our 140 million cars that everyone in
Western Europe could ride with us
Purchase durable and long lasting goods in order to
reduce how much and how often you throw things
away
Turn off the water faucet when brushing your
teeth. This simple act can save 9 gallons of
water every time you brush.
If every household reused a paper grocery bag
for one shopping trip, about 60,000 trees
would be saved
Bring your grocery, produce bags back to
the supermarket, and reuse them
Use the backside of paper to take
notes and do scratch work
Turn empty jars into containers
for leftover food
Purchas refillable pens and pencils
By recycling one ton (2,000 lbs.) of paper, we save: 17 trees;
6,953 gallons of water; 463 gallons of oil; 587 pounds of air
pollution; 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space and 4,077 Kilowatt
hours of energy
Recycled plastic is made into plastic lumber,
clothing, flower pots, insulation for sleeping
bags, ski jackets, car bumpers and more
Recycling one aluminum can saves
enough electricity to run a TV for three
hours
The steel from the more then 84% of appliances (39
million) recycled last year yielded enough steel to
build about 160 football stadiums