Community
Presented By
Recycling Facts
-
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough electricity to power a TV for three hours (one football game).
Rate of DecompositionPaper Cup
5 years
Foam Cup
10-20 years
Banana Peel
1 week - 6 months
Cotton Rag
1-5 months
Tin Can
100 years
Plastic Cup
50-80 years
Aluminum Can
100-500 years
Painted Wooden Board
13 years
Glass Bottle
Indestructible
- Trash by weight is 34.2% paper, 5.2% glass, 7.6% metal, 11.7% food waste, 11.9% plastic, 13.1% yard waste and 16.3% other trash.
- 54.3% of garbage is buried in landfills, 13.6% is burned in incinerators, 23.8% is recycled, and 8.4% is recovered thru composting.
- The U.S., while having 5% of the world’s population, produces 25% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions.
- One acre of trees can absorb the carbon dioxide produced by driving a car 26,000 miles.
- Making new cans from used cans takes 95 percent less energy and 20 recycled cans can be made with the energy needed to produce one can using new ore.
- It takes fourteen 20 oz. PET bottles to make one square foot of carpet.
- Recycling 1 ton of material saves 3 cubic yards of landfill space.
- 34.2% of all landfill trash is a paper product.
- Yearly we dispose of 12.2 million tons of leaves & grass clippings, which could be composted to conserve landfill space.
- Each American generate about 4.54 lbs of trash per day of which 1.08 is recycled, .38 is composted, .62 is incinerated and 2.46 is discarded into a landfill.
- Tossing away an aluminum can wastes as much energy as pouring out half of that cans volume of gasoline.
- There is no limit to the amount of times you can recycle an aluminum can.
- Recycling 1 ton of glass saves the equivalent of 9 gallons of oil.
- Recycling 1 ton of newspaper saves 17 trees & uses 60% less water.
- It takes 3688 lbs of wood, 216 lbs of lime, 360 lbs of salt cake and 76 lbs of soda ash to make 2000 lbs (1 ton) of paper.
- The Statue of Liberty was restored with recycled scrap metal.
- In one week, Americans throw away enough cans & bottles to circle the earth 4 times!
- Recycling aluminum cans requires 95% less energy than producing the cans from the raw bauxite ore.
- 20 recycled cans can be made with the energy needed to produce 1 can using the raw bauxite ore.
- Recycling 1 ton of newspapers saves the same amount of energy contained in 100 gallons of gasoline.
- Recycling 1 ton of newspaper uses 70% less energy than producing the same ton from virgin materials and saves the same amount of electricity used in a typical home in 6 months.
- Recycling glass saves more than half the furnace energy needed to make glass from virgin materials and produces the same quality product.
- Increasing steel recycling 50% would save the energy equivalent of 7 nuclear power plants.
- Recycling helps preserve the quality of our air & water. Using recycled materials over again creates less pollution than starting from scratch with virgin materials.
- Recycling 1 ton of newspaper produces 50% fewer pollutants than making 1 ton from virgin materials.
- Manufacturing processes using recycling paper do not generate a by-product hazardous waste known as “liquor.”
| Send to a Friend | Printer-Friendly |
