1. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours.
2. During the time it takes you to read this sentence 50,000 12 oz. cans are made.
3. An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can in 500 years.
4. To produce each weeks Sunday paper 500,000 trees will be cut down.
5. Recycling a single run of the Sunday paper would save 75,000 trees.
6. If all our newspapers were recycled we could save 250,000,000 trees a year.
7. If every American recycled 1/10 of their newspapers we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.
8. If you had a 15 year old tree and made it into paper bags you would get about 700 bags. A supermarket could use that in under an hour! This means in one year a supermarket goes through about 60,500,000 paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are in the U.S.
9. Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper is thrown away each year in the U.S.
10. The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
11. Each ton of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 280 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 700 gallons of water. This represents 64% energy savings, 58% water savings and 60 pounds less air pollution. The 17 trees can absorb 250 pounds carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same amount would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide.
12. Americans throw away 25,000,000 plastic bottles each hour.
13. A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years to decompose, and even longer in a landfill.
14. Americans throw out 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam coffee cups each year.
15. More than 20,000,000 Hersheys Kisses are wrapped each day using 133 square miles of tin foil, all of which is recyclable.
16. You can walk one mile along an average highway in the U.S. and see about 1457 pieces of litter.
17. Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kills as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year.
18. Rain forests are being cut down at a rate of 100 acres per minute.
19. A single quart of motor oil if disposed improperly can contaminate 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water.
