FACTOIDS
- The average person generates 600 times their adult weight in garbage during their lifetime. (Source-50 Things You Can Do To Save The Earth)
- The energy used to produce one day’s junk mail in America is enough to heat 250,000 homes. (Source-Georgetown Recycles)
- One ton of paper from recycled pulp SAVES
- 17 trees
- 3 cubic yards of landfill space
- 7000 gallons of water
- 4200KWH (Enough to heat your home for 1/2 year)
Recycling Prevents...
- 60 pounds of Air Pollutants. (Source - Recycle MIT pamphlet 1990)
- Recycling a soda can saves 96% of the energy used to make a can from ore. ( Source - Dartmouth Recycles pamphlet)
- The aluminum can was introduced in 1964. In 1988, 88 billion were produced, 55 billion were recycled! (Source-Alexis Wolin, recycling Coord CWRU)
- Recycling a glass jar saves enough energy to light a 100 watt bulb for 4 hours. (Source-Georgetown Recycles)
- Americans throw away enough glass bottles and jars to fill the former 1350 foot twin towers at New York’s World Trade Center every two weeks. (Source-The Environmental Defense fund)
- Americans go through 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. (Source-The Environmental Defense fund)
- The plastic from 5 soda bottles can completely insulate a ski jacket. (Source-Georgetown Recycles)