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- WE CANNOT RECYCLE EVERYTHING.
- So, what can you recycle?
- Steel, tin, and aluminum cans
- Plastic bottles and containers
- Paper
- Paper cardboard, dairy, and juice containers
- Flattened cardboard and paperboard
- We are not allowed to collect glass bottles and jars, plastic bags, and polystyrene foam products for recycling purposes.
- 91% of plastic isn’t recycled.
- One hundred million homes could be heated for 10 years with the amount of wood and paper that is thrown out annually in the United States.
- A single aluminum can be recycled can generate enough energy to power a TV for 3 hours.
- Plastic takes more than 400 years to degrade.
- 79 percent of plastic is accumulating in landfills or sloughing off in the natural environment as litter.
- 8 million metric tons of plastic ends up in the ocean every year.
- Half a million trees have to be cut down just to produce the Sunday newspapers each week.
- Recycling a single days worth of the New York Times could save 75,000 trees or more.
- Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold, many years ago.
- Each American uses around 680 pounds of paper each year and most people just throw it away instead of recycling it for further use.
- Americans will use over 2 and a half million plastic bottles every thirty minutes, and most of them are simply thrown away rather than recycled.
- A modern glass bottle could take over 4000 years to actually decompose, and if it is in the landfill then it will probably take even longer than that.
- The amount of wood and paper that are thrown each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
