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- The average American discards 7.5 lbs of garbage per day.
- It takes only 60 days for an aluminum can to be recycled and put back on the store shelf as a new can filled with your favorite beverage.
- It requires 95% less energy to make aluminum from recycled materials than from bauxite,
the primary ore used.
- Nearly all steel manufactured in the world is made from scrap.
- Using recycled steel results in 86% reduction in air pollution, 40% reduction in water use, 76% reduction in water pollution, and 74% energy savings over use of mined ore.
- Recycling a ton of plastic saves the energy equivalent to 1000-2000 gallons of gasoline.
- Recycling a ton of PET plastic containers (#1) saves 7.4 cubic yards of landfill space
- Producing glass from virgin materials requires 30% more energy than producing it from crushed used glass.
- Glass containers (bottles & jars) are made from a "soda-lime" recipe. Other glass-like items differ chemically from glass containers and may not be mixed with them for recycling.
- Paper products make up the largest part (40%) of our trash.
- Nearly one half of all paper used in the US is recovered for recycling
- Recycling one ton of paper saves 7000 gallons of water
- Composting is nature's way of recycling organics and returning nutrients to the soil to be used again.
- In order to make recycling economically viable, there must be a market for recycled products. If people buy them, companies will be encouraged to manufacture them.and the whole system works.
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