Save the Planet Fun Facts
Aluminum
Every three months, Americans discard enough aluminum to completely rebuild every single commercial airplane in America.
- It takes about 400 years for aluminum to break down naturally. That Coke can you just drank from will probably still look about the same in another century or two.
- A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days.
- Used aluminum cans can be recycled and used in various products like vehicle parts, sliding shutters for windows and doors, etc.
www.professorshouse.com/Your-Home/Environment/Recycling/Articles/Recycling-Aluminum-Cans—Fun-Facts/
www.recycling-revolution.com/recycling-facts.html
Paper
If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year.
- The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
- Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
- Every day American businesses generate enough paper to circle the earth 20 times.
- If every household in the U.S. reused a paper bag for one shopping trip, about 60,000 trees would be saved
www.oroloma.org/poster_contest/recycle_facts.html
www.redcorecycling.com/facts1.html
www.recycling-revolution.com/recycling-facts.html
Plastic
Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away
- The average time taken by plastic bottles to decompose in a landfill is close to 700 years.
www.recycling-revolution.com/recycling-facts.html
Glass
Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. All of these jars are recyclable.
- Glass is one of the very few products that can be recycled continuously…FOREVER.
www.earth911.com/recycling/glass/facts-about-glass-recycling/
www.recycling-revolution.com/recycling-facts.html
Cardboard
Recycling one ton of cardboard saves over nine cubic yards of landfill space.
- Earth911 reports that recycling one ton of cardboard can save around 46 gallons of oil
- Recycling 1 ton of corrugated cardboard saves 700 gallons of water
www.livestrong.com/article/188140-cardboard-recycling-facts/
www.papertrail.com/cardboard_recycling.htm
www.oroloma.org/poster_contest/recycle_facts.html
www.recycling-revolution.com/recycling-facts.html