Here are some startling facts and statistics, about our use of products, and how this impacts the planet:
METAL:
• If it takes you 45 seconds to read this recycling fact, then by the time you are done, there will have been over a quarter of a million aluminum cans produced before you were done.
• If you drink a can of beer after work and then tossed it in the recycling bin, that one (aluminum) can saves enough energy to watch television for 3 hours after dinner!
• There are over 80 billion soda cans used each year – yes, that’s billion, and just soda!
• The good thing about recycling aluminum is that it can be recycled an unlimited amount of times — even 200 years from now, a can still be a can.
PAPER:
• If everyone read just their Sunday paper online for now on and no paper versions, 500,000 trees would be saved per week!
• If every single newspaper was recycled after we read them, we would be able to save 25 million trees per year!
• If you were to add up the amount of separate pieces of paper trash that each American throws away per year, it would be approximately 13,000 pieces of paper.
• If we were to save all the wood and paper that we toss into the trash each year, the combined amount would be enough to heat 50 million homes for up to 20 years.
• If we were to lay out all the paper that American businesses generate in just one day, that paper would be enough to circle the Earth about 20 times.
PLASTIC AND STYROFOAM:
• Trumpig the number of soda cans, mentioned above, just in the USA alone, over 25 million beverage bottles made of plastic are thrown away every hour!
• Styrofoam coffee cups are being thrown away at an unbelievable amount of 25 billion per year — that is in the USA only.
• Plastic material being dumped into the ocean is responsible for killing up to a million sea creatures yearly.
GLASS:
• Using a similar example as the single aluminum can above, did you know that recycling just one glass bottle can run one of your 100 watt light bulbs for 3-4 hours.
• When a glass bottle is recycled, it is considerably cutting back on the air and water pollution that happens when creating the bottle from raw materials.
• If we were to wait for a glass bottle to decompose after throwing it away today, we would have to wait approx 4000 years.
• There are approx 41 billion glass containers manufactured every year.
• Like aluminum, glass can be reused an unlimted amount of times.
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