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Earthwise Recycling Facts

  • Recycling Conserves our valuable natural resources
  • Recycling Saves energy
  • Recycling saves Clean Air and Clean Water
  • Recycling saves Landfill Space
  • Recycling decreases emissions of Greenhouse Gases that contribute to Global Climate Change
  • Recycling helps sustain the environment for Future Generations


    Did You Know?

    *Americans throw away enough aluminum every month to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
    *Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a 100-watt bulb for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours, or a TV for 2 hours.
    *Americans throw out enough iron and steel to supply all the nation's automakers on a continuous basis.
    *Americans throw away enough glass bottles and jars every two weeks to fill the 1.350-foot towers of the former World Trade Center.
    *Americans go through 25 billion plastic bottles every year. If every American household recycled just one out of every ten HDPE bottles they used, we'd keep 200 million pounds of the plastic out of landfills every year.
    *If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
    *A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill.
    *The average American uses 650 lbs. of paper per year
    *We use about 392 cans per person per year.
    *Yard trimmings and food residuals together constitute 24 percent of the U.S. municipal solid waste stream.
    *Food and paper are the two largest contributors to landfill, and make up more than half of all landfill waste - more than all plastics, diapers, Styrofoam, and tires, COMBINED.
    *Food and paper are biodegradable in nature but not in landfills, due to lack of OXYGEN being buried deep and saturated with water. Landfills EMBALM food and paper for many years. The only real decomposition is anaerobic (lacking oxygen) which produces methane greenhouse gas.
    *Food is the #1 LEAST recycled material
    *The average American produces 4 lbs of landfill waste every day - that's more than 50 TONS over a lifetime. Half of this waste is compostable *Compost offers "closed loop" sustainability: from table, to compost, to garden vegetables, back to the table.

 

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