Eco Facts
- Americans throw away 25 million styrofoam coffee cups every year.
- An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now.
- Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for 4 hours.
- If we recycled every plastic bottle we used, we would keep 2 billion tons of plastic out of landfills.
- Recycling one aluminum drink container can run your TV for 3 hours.
- It takes 25 two-liter plastic soft drink bottles to make a sweater.
- It takes two plastic soft drink bottles to make enough polyester fiber for a baseball cap.
- It takes 35 two-liter plastic bottles to make 1 sleeping bag.
- If we recycle the aluminum trash that Americans throw away, we could rebuild the entire US airline fleet every three months.
- Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the US.
- 27% of the newspapers produced in America are recycled.
- Americans throw away enough paper, plastic cups, plastic forks and spoons every year to circle the equator 300 times.
- The State of California spends about 25 million dollars sending plastic bags to landfills every year, and another 8.5 million dollars to remove littered bags from its streets.
- Approximately 2.6 billion holiday cards are sold each year in the U.S. which could fill a football field 10 stories high.
- 38,000 miles of ribbon are thrown away each year, enough to tie a bow around the Earth.
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