Don't RECYCLE for a minute, make it a part of your daily life ~ And here's WHY:

Aluminum Recycling Facts:

A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days. That's closed loop recycling at its finest!

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.

We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year.

There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can be recycled.

Paper Recycling Facts:

To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.

Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.

If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.

Plastic Recycling Facts:

Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away!

Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!

Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam coffee cups every year.

Glass Recycling Facts:

Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. All of these jars are recyclable!

A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill.

The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials.

Solid Waste and Landfills:

Every year, each American throws out about 1,200 pounds of organic garbage that can be composted.

Out of every $10 spent buying things, $1 (10%) goes for packaging that is thrown away. Packaging represents about 65% of household trash.

The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world's people generate 40% of the world's waste.

Miscellaneous Recycling Facts:

A typical family consumes 182 gallons of soda, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That's a lot of containers -- make sure they're recycled!

A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water.

Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute!

On average, each one of us produces 4.4 pounds of solid waste each day. This adds up to almost a ton of trash per person, per year.


For even more information and additional recycling facts, please visit: The National Recycling Coalition


"Happy Recycling"

Love,
Erica & Tallas