Facts About Recycling

1. In one year in the United States, the recycling of steel saves enough energy to heat and light 18,000,000 homes!
2. If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.
3. Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!
4. The US population discards each year 16,000,000,000 diapers, 1,600,000,000 pens, 2,000,000,000 razor blades, 220,000,000 car tires, and enough aluminum to rebuild the US commercial air fleet four times over.
5.The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours or a compact fluorescent bulb for 20 hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials.