1. Recycling conserves energy.
2. Every week more than 500,000 trees are used to produce the two-thirds of newspapers that are never recycled.
3. It takes about 75,000 trees to print just one edition of a newspsper!
4. Every hour Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles, but only a small percentage are recycled.
5. Consumers and industries throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial airfleet every three months.
6. We throw away enough iron and steel to continuously supply all the nation's automakers.
7. We throw away enough glass bottles and jars to fill a 1,350-foot tower every two weeks.
8. Every year we dispose of 24 million tons of leaves and grass clippings, which could be composted to conserve landfill space.
9. Each year, we produce nearly 1600 pounds of trash that is still going to landfills and incinerators instead of being recycled.
10. One tree alone is able to filter over 60 pounds pollutants from the air annually.
11. The 594.2 billion cans (13,000,000 pounds!!!!) recycled since 1972 placed end- to-end could stretch to the moon some 190 times.
12. Every minute an average of 113,204 aluminum cans are recycled.
13. Every minute more than 9,000 tin cans are recovered from the trash with magnets.
14. It takes 390 gallons of oil to produce a ton of paper.
15. To produce one trillion pages of paper takes 8.5 million acres of trees.
16. Glass never wears out -- it can be recycled forever.
17. Recycling glass saves 25-32% of the energy used to make glass.
18. There are more than 500,000 tons of glass refillable containers in use.
19. In our lifetime we will, on average, throw away 600 times our own weight in garbage. This adds up to a sum of 90,000 pounds of trash that each of us will leave behind to the next generation!
20. By recycling one aluminum can, enough energy is saved to run a television set for three hours or to keep one 100 Watt bulb lit for almost 20 hours!