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Recycling Facts

This is why recycling is very important.

One ton of recycled aluminum saves:

14,000 kwh of electricity
1,663 gallons of oil
237.6 million BTU of energy
10 cubic yards of landfill space


Aluminum takes take 200-500 years to fully degrade in a landfill. Recycled aluminum takes 95% less energy than making aluminum from raw materials.
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours.

One ton of glass saves:

  • 42 kwh of electricity
  • 5 gallons of oil
  • 714.3 BTU of energy
  • 2 cubic yards of landfill space
  • 1,330 pound of sand
  • 433 pound of soda ash
  • 433 pound of limestone
  • 151 pound of feldspar

Glass takes 1,000,000 years to fully degrade in a landfill. Recycled glass take 30% less energy than making glass from raw materials.

The United States throws away enough glass every week to fill a 1,350 square foot building.

Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to run a 100 watts light bulb for four hours.
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One ton of Plastic saves:

  • 5,774 kwh of energy
  • 685 gallons of oil
  • 98 million BTU of  energy
  • 30 cubic yards of landfill space

Plastic takes up to 1,000 years to degrade in a landfill. Recycled plastic takes 88% less energy than making plastic from raw materials.

Only about 25% of plastic produced in the USA is recycled.

One  ton of recycled cardboard saves:

  • 390 kwh of electricity
  • 46 gallons of oil
  • 6.6 millions BTU of energy

Cardboard and paper make up 41% of the municipal solid waste stream.

Recycled cardboard takes 24% less energy and produces 50% less sulfur dioxide than making cardboard from raw materials.

One ton of recycled paper saves:

  • 4100kwh of electricity
  • 380 gallons of oil
  • 54 millions BTU of energy
  • 4.6 cubic yards of landfill space
  • 7,000 gallons of water
  • 17 trees

Recycle paper takes 60% less energy than making paper from raw materials. It also creates 74% less air pollutions and 35% later water pollution.

Americans throw away 4.5 millions tons of office paper each year. That's enough to build a wall of paper 12 feet high from New York to Los Angeles.
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