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- About 65 percent of America's aluminum is currently recycled.
- Every minute an average of 123,097 aluminum cans are recycled.
- On average, Americans recycle 2 out of every 3 aluminum cans they use.
- The average aluminum can contains more than 50 percent post-consumer recycled aluminum.
- An aluminum can recycled today will be back on the grocery shelf in about 90 days!
- Twenty years ago, it took 19 aluminum cans to make one pound, but today's aluminum cans are lighter and it now takes 29 cans to make a pound! That means less aluminum is wasted, saving energy and other environmental resources!
- Tossing away an aluminum can wastes as much energy as pouring out half of that can's volume of gasoline.
- Making aluminum cans from recycled aluminum takes 95 percent less energy than making cans from virgin ore.
- Recycling one aluminum can save enough energy to keep a 100-watt bulb burning for almost four hours or run your television for three hours.
- Making beverage cans from recycled aluminum cuts air pollution by about 95 percent.
- More than one million tons of aluminum containers and packaging (soda cans, TV dinner trays, aluminum foil) are thrown away each year.
- Last year, approximately 36 billion aluminum cans were landfilled. The cans that were thrown away had an estimated scrap value of more than $600 million.
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- Glass never wears out -- it can be recycled over and over again.
- Most bottles and jars contain at least 25 percent recycled glass.
- Every day, Americans recycle about 13 million glass jars and bottles.
- If all the glass bottles and jars collected through recycling in the United States in 1994 were laid end to end, they would reach the moon and half-way back to earth.
- Over a ton of resources is saved for every ton of glass recycled -- 1,330 pounds of sand, 433 pounds of soda ash, 433 pounds of limestone, and 151 pounds of feldspar.
- Recycling glass reduces air pollution by 14-20 percent and saves 25-32 percent more energy than making glass from virgin raw materials.
- Recycling one glass bottle saves enough electricity to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours.
- Glass containers were recycled at a rate of 38 percent in 1996.
- Producing a ton of glass from 100 percent raw materials creates 384 pounds of mining waste. Using 50 percent recycled glass cuts this waste by about 75 percent.
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Paper and paperboard account for more than 60 percent of all materials diverted from the municipal solid waste stream for recycling and composting.
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- Americans now recover 40 percent of all paper used. Everyday, U.S. paper makers recycle enough paper to fill a 15-mile long train of boxcars.
- U.S. paper recovery last year saved more than 90 million cubic yards of landfill space.
- Recycling corrugated cardboard cuts the emissions of sulfur dioxide in half, and uses about 25 percent less energy than making cardboard from virgin pulp. Every Sunday, nearly 90 percent of the recyclable newspapers in the U.S. are thrown away. That's equivalent to dumping 500,000 trees into a landfill every week.
- American's throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall 12-foot high stretching from Los Angeles to New York City.
- If everyone in the U.S. recycled just 1/10 of their newsprint, we would save the equivalent of about 25 million trees a year.
- If all morning newspapers read in this country were recycled, 41,000 trees would be saved daily, and 6 million tons of waste would never end up in landfills.
- Producing one ton of recycled paper creates 74 percent less air pollution, 35 percent water pollution; and saves 17 trees compared to producing one ton of paper products from virgin wood.
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