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