INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT RECYCLING!

• In a lifetime, the average American will throw away 600 times his or her adult weight in garbage.  This means that each adult will leave a legacy of 90,000 lbs. of trash for his or her children.

• Each of us generates 4.4 pounds of waste per day.

• Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.

• 350,000 aluminum cans are produced every minute.

• We use over 80,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year.

• There is no limit to the amount of times aluminum cans can be recycled.

• Americans use 2 ½ million plastic bottles every hour.

• Five recycled two-liter soda bottles can be used to make one square foot of carpet.

• The same amount of bottles makes enough fiberfill to stuff a ski jacket.

• It takes 17 average-sized trees to make one ton of paper.

• Making one ton of recycled paper uses only 60 % of the energy needed to make one ton of virgin paper.

• Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year: about 680 pounds per person.

• If everyone in the U. S. recycled just 1/10 of their newsprint, we would save the estimated equivalent of about 25,000,000 trees a year.

• One ton of recycled paper saves 3,700 pounds of lumber and 24,000 gallons of water.

Recycling Saves Energy and Preserves Natural Resources