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.

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

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.

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.

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

Last update: March 29, 2016