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Recycling
For every one ton of paper we recycle, 17 trees are saved!
Recycling saves energy AND it saves our natural resources
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours- or the equivalent of a half gallon of gasoline
To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down
Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees
The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years
Americans throw away 25,000,000 plastic beverage bottles every hour
Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person
Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution
Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper, and all of these jars are recyclable
The highest point in Ohio is "Mount Rumpke," which is actually a mountain of trash at the Rumpke sanitary landfill
75% of our trash can be recycled
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours
Every year, Americans throw away enough office and writing paper to build a wall 12 feet high, stretching from Los Angeles to New York City
In one year an estimated seven million tons of clothing and other textiles are thrown away
About 40% of an average dump is paper
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