Recycling Facts
- Last year Americans recycled enough aluminum cans to conserve 15 million barrels of oil.
- Throwing away one can is the energy equivalent to pouring out six ounces of gasoline.
- It takes 90% more energy to make a can than to recycle one.
- Recycling as a whole saved the equivalent of 5 billion gallons of gas, reducing the dependence of foreign oil by 114 million barrels. This is equal to taking 36 million cars off the road.
- America currently recycles 50% of all parer,34% of plastics drink containers, 45 percent of aluminum cans.
- Every Sunday, if all americans would recycle their Sunday paper we could save 500,000 trees.
- Recycling 10,000 tons of trash creates 36 new jobs. Land filling the same amount creates 6. Incinerating that amount creates 1. Recycling is good for our nation’s international status, good for our economy and most importantly, good for our planet.
- One day recyclable materials will be some of the most valuable commodities traded internationally. Who would have more of those materials than the most consumptive nation in the world? Environmental consciousness is the future for our country and all others. Be part of the solution