Recycling Facts
- These Recycling Facts are very revealing and provide many factual reasons for becoming highly motivated to put effective Recycling Programs in place.
- The United States is the #1 trash producing country at 1,609 pounds per person per year; as 5% of the world's population, we produce 40% of the world's waste.
- Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, 7,000 gallons of water, and 246,000 kilowatt minutes of electricity - enough energy to power the average US home for 5 months.
- Recycling creates 4 times as many jobs as standard waste management.
- It takes 500,000 trees to produce the newspapers Americans read each Sunday, yet only 30% of those newspapers are recycled.
- A recycled aluminum can returns to the grocer's shelf in as little as 90 days after collection, re-melting, rolling, manufacturing, and distribution.
- It takes 1 million years for a glass bottle to break down in a landfill, and only 34% of our glass bottles are recycled.
- It takes 60% less energy to produce paper from recycled paper than from virgin materials, for 74% less air pollution and 35% less water pollution.
- Recycle Media will implement a cost free Public Space Recycling program that is as comprehensive as it is effective.