RECYCLE
recycling
The average person generates over 4 pounds of trash every day and about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year.
In 2009, Americans produced enough trash to circle the Earth 24 times.
Over 75% of waste is recyclable, but we only recycle about 30% of it.
We generate 21.5 million tons of food waste each year. If we composted that food, it would reduce the same amount of greenhouse gas as taking 2 million cars off the road.
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to listen to a full album on your iPod.
Recycling 100 cans could light your bedroom for two whole weeks.
Recycling aluminum cans saves 95% of the energy used to make alum cans from new material.
Americans throw away 25,000,000 plastic bottles every hour.
Over 87% of Americans have access to curbside or drop-off paper recycling programs.
In 2009,
Americans threw away almost 9 million tons of glass.
In 2010, paper recycling had increased over 89% since 1990.