Aluminum Cans

• Throwing away an aluminum beverage container wastes as much energy as filling the can half full with gasoline and throwing it out
• The energy saved from each recycled aluminum can will light a 100 watt bulb for three and one-half hours
• Americans use an average of 364 aluminum cans per year
• You can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one new one (www.recyclingit.com/recyfact.htm)
• Since 1972, more than 20 million tons of aluminum cans have been recycled. If these nearly one trillion cans (1,000,000,000,000) are placed end to end, they could stretch to the moon more than 275 times
• Recycling one aluminum can save enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours (www.cansforcash.com/games/fun_facts.asp)
• In 1972, 53 million pounds of aluminum cans were recycled. Today, we exceed that amount weekly
• Recycling steel annually saves enough energy to power LA for 10 years
• Every minute 127,093 cans are recycled nationwide
• Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet (www.recyclingit.com/recyfact.htm)
• Enough energy is saved by recycling one aluminum can to run a TV set for three hours or to light one 100 watt bulb for 20 hours. (www.recyclingit.com/recyfact.htm)
• During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made (Members.aol.com/Ramola15/funfacts.html)

Glass Bottles

• Glass can be recycled again and again with no loss of quality in the new containers made with recycled glass
• Every ton of glass recycled saves the equivalent of 9 gallons of fuel oi

Newspaper

• One pound of recycled newspaper can be recycled into 6 cereal boxes or egg cartons
• Paper made from waste paper instead of virgin wood requires 65% less energy and 60% less water (it also results in 70% fewer air pollutants)
• Americans throwaway enough office paper per year to build a 12 foot high wall across the entire country
• One ton of recycled paper saves 3,700 pounds of lumber and 24,000 gallons of water (www.recyclingit.com/recyfact.htm)
• If everyone in the U.S. recycled just 1/10 of their newsprint, we would save the estimated equivalent of about 25 million trees a year (www.recyclingit.com/recyfact.htm)
• Everyday Americans buy 62 million newspapers and throw out 44 million. That's the equivalent of dumping 500,000 trees into a landfill every week (www.recyclingit.com/recyfact.htm)
• Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person (Members.aol.com/Ramola15/funfacts.html)

Plastic Bottles

Cardboard

• Corrugated boxes are used to ship 95% of all the manufactured goods in the U.S. And today, 6 out of every 10 of these corrugated cardboard boxes are collected for recycling (http://www.deltapaper.com/environ.html)