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Recycling for our Future

Why Recycle? Quick Facts:

  • Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees, 2 barrels of oil (enough to run the average car for 1,260 miles), 4,100 kilowatts of energy (enough power for the average home for 6 months), 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60 pounds of air pollution. Trash to Cash

  • The U.S. is 5% of the world's population but uses 25% of its natural resources. Environmental Protection Agency

  • Recycling glass, instead of making it from silica sand, reduces mining waste by 75% and air pollution by 20%. Lehigh County Solid Waste Management, 2003

  • About 86 percent of US landfills are currently leaking toxic materials into lakes, streams, and aquifers. Once groundwater is contaminated, it is extremely expensive and difficult,to clean it up. EPA, 2003

  • Glass takes more than one million years to decompose in our landfills. California Department of Conservation, 2003

Recycling is Working!

  • In 2000, 45.4 % of the total paper generated in the US was recycled, up from 28 % in 1990. Environmental Protection Agency, 2000

  • The energy saved each year by steel recycling is equal to the electrical power used by 18 million homes each year - or enough energy to power the combined residents of Montgomery County, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. for eight years. Steel Recycling Institute
  • Recycling collection and processing, and manufacturing with recycled materials employed 952,614 people in 2001, and paid $34 billion in wages. National Recycling Coalition, 2001