When glass, paper and cans are recycled, they become similar products which can be used and recycled over and over again.

Recycling glass instead of making it from silica sand reduces mining waste by 70%, water use by 50%, and air pollution by 20%.

Americans, toss in the garbage, enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial fleet of airplanes every 3 months.

Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees, 2 barrels of oil (enough to run the average car for 1,260 miles), 4,100 kilowatts of energy (enough power for the average home for 6 months), 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60 pounds of air pollution.

If we recycled all of the newspapers printed in the U.S. on a typical Sunday, we would save 550,000 trees--or about 26 million trees per year.

In the United States, we use enough office paper each year to build a 10-foot-high wall that’s 6,815 miles long, or two and a half times the distance from New York to Los Angeles.                                

About 80% of what Americans throw away is recyclable, yet our recycling rate is just 28%.

Through recycling, the steel industry conserves the equivalent energy to power about 18 million homes for 12 months and saves the energy equivalent to electrically powering about one-fifth of the households in the United States (or about 18 million homes) in one year.

You - the consumer
create the demand by purchasing products
made with or packaged in
 recycled paper, steel, aluminum, glass, and plastic.
Purchasing items that can be recycled
as well as those that use recycled content materials
 in their products or packaging is your way of
"voting with your wallet".
Your purchase then promotes more recycling.

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