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These recycling facts have been compiled from various sources including the National Recycling Coalition, the Environmental Protection Agency, 和 Earth911.org.

 

Aluminum Recycling Facts

    • A used aluminum can is recycled 和 back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days. That's closed-loop recycling at its finest!
    • Used aluminum beverage cans are the most recycled item in the U.S., but other types of aluminum, 比如壁板, 排水沟, 汽车零部件, storm window frames, 和 lawn furniture can also be recycled.
    • Because so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste stream, according to EPA estimates.
    • There is no limit to the number of times an aluminum can may be recycled.
    • In one year in the United States, the recycling of steel saves enough energy to heat 和 light 18,000,000个家庭!

 

Paper Recycling Facts

    • If all newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
    • The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, 和 other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!
    • The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging 和 junk mail.
    • 1993年，美国.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of l和fill space.
    • 每吨(2),000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of l和fill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, 和 7000 gallons of water.
    • The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.

 

Plastic Recycling Facts

    • Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most are thrown away!
    • Plastic bags 和 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 burning it in an incinerator.

 

Glass Recycling Facts 

    • The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours or a compact fluorescent bulb for 20 hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution 和 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials.
    • A modern glass bottle would take 4,000 years or more to decompose -- 和 even longer if it's in the l和fill.
    • Mining 和 transporting raw materials for glass produces about 385 pounds of waste for every ton of glass that is made. If recycled glass is substituted for half of the raw materials, the waste is cut by more than 80%.

 

Solid Waste 和 L和fills

    • 美国.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.
    • 美国S population discards each year 16,000,000,000年尿布, 1,600,000,000年笔, 2,000,000,000 razor blades, 220,000,000个汽车轮胎, 和 enough aluminum to rebuild the US commercial air fleet four times over.
    • Out of every $10 spent buying things, $1 (10%) goes for packaging that is thrown away. Packaging represents about 65% of household trash.
    • 平均, it costs $30 per ton to recycle trash, $50 to send it to the l和fill, 和 $65 to $75 to incinerate it.

 

Miscellaneous Recycling Facts

    • 估计有80人,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using enough aluminum foil to cover over 50 acres of space -- that's almost 40 football fields. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.
    • Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute!
    • A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water.