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By Recycling 1 ton of paper you save:
- 17 trees
- 7,000 gallons of water
- 463 gallons of oil
- 60 pounds of air pollution
- 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space
- 4,100 kilowatt hours of energy, enough to heat an average American home for 6 months
Paper Facts:
- Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
- Americans receive almost 4 million tons of junk mail a year.
- About 44% of the junk mail is never opened.
- Every person in the US receives junk mail that represents the equivalent of one and a half trees a year.
- If only 100,000 people stopped receiving junk mail we could save up to 150,000 trees annually.
- If a million people did this, we could save up to a million and a half trees.
- Americans throw away enough paper every year to build a 12 foot high wall from LA to New York.
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Aluminum Facts:
- An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!
- There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can be recycled.
- A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days. That's closed loop recycling at its finest!
- Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.
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Plastic Facts:
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Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away!
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Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year
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Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.
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