Interesting facts

Paper

To produce each week's daily newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
If all our newspapers were recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
When you smell a dump, what you're actually smelling is the paper in the dump!
Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!

 

 

Glass

Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. All of these jars are recyclable!
The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours.
A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose.
Glass is 100% recyclable and can be used again and again.

 

 

Plastic

Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!
Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as buring it in an incinerator.The use of plastic in Europe is growing about 4% each year.

 

 

Metal

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.
350,000 aluminum cans are produced every minute!
During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.
An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!
We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year.
Aluminium cans can be recycled and ready to use in just 6 weeks.

 

 

Miscellaneous

Every week about 20 species of plants and animals become extinct!
One-third of the water used in most homes is flushed down the toilet.
Up to 80% of a vehicle can be recycled.
A typical family consumes 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That's a lot of containers.