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Recycling
Facts
- The average person
generates 600 times their adult weight in garbage during their lifetime.
(Source-50 Things You Can Do To Save The Earth)
- The energy used
to produce one day’s junk mail in America is enough to heat 250,000
homes. (Source-Georgetown Recycles)
- Recycling a soda
can saves 96% of the energy used to make a can from ore. ( Source
- Dartmouth Recycles pamphlet)
- Americans go through
2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. (Source-The Environmental
Defense fund)
- The plastic from
5 soda bottles can completely insulate a ski jacket. (Source-Georgetown
Recycles)
- According to Weyerhaeuser's
Environmental Savings, recycling one ton of paper saves:
- 17
Trees
- 6,953
Gallons of Water
- 462.57
Gallons of Oil
- 586.5
Pounds of Air Pollution
- 3.06
cubic yards of landfill space
- 4,077.45
KWhr of Energy
- Each day, the
average American city-dweller consumes:
- 15
Pounds of Fossil Fuels
- 150
Gallons of Water
- 3.3
Pounds of Food
- and produces
- 120
Gallons of Sewage
- 3.4
Pounds of Garbage
- 1.3
Pounds of Pollutants
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