1. Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
2. It takes 75,000 trees each week to produce the Sunday edition of the New York Times.
3. If Americans recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save 25 million trees a year.
4.The average American uses 580 pounds of paper each year. As a nation we consume 850 million trees annually.
5. Recycling and reusing the material in "tin" cans reduces energy use by 74%, air pollution by 85%, solid waste by 95%, and water pollution by 76%.
6. Every year, Americans throw away enough office and writing paper to build a wall 12 feet high from New York to Los Angeles.
7. In one year, American steel recyling saves enough energy to heat and light 18 million homes. One pound of steel saves enough energy to light a 60 watt bulb for 24 hours.
8. A typical family uses 650 pounds of paper each year - 100 million tons of wood could be saved each year if all that paper was recycled.
9. Every month Americans throw out enough glass ottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper (think: Empire State uilding), but all of these jars are RECYCABLE!
10. Plastic bags and other plastic garage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures a year! Ever heard of the Great Pacific Garage Patch?It's twice tthe size of Texas and is floating somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. It's also 80% plastic, and weighs in at 3.5 million tons.
11. Recycling one ton (2,000 punds) of paper saves 17 trees, two barrels of oil (enough to run the average car for 1,260 miles), 4,100 kilowattsof energy (enough power for the average home for six months), 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60 pounds of pollution.
12. More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of aluminim foil. believe it not, ALL that foil is recycable, but not many people realize it so most it goes in the trash!