Recycling one ton of paper, you save

• 4,077 kilowatt-hours of energy
• 6,953 gallons of water
• 463 gallons of oil
• 17 mature trees
• 3 cubic yards of landfill space
• 2 barrels of oil
• 4,100 kilowatt-hours of electricity
• generates 74 percent less air pollution
• enough energy to power the average American home for five months

Recycling one aluminum can, you save

• enough energy to run a television or computer for three hours
• run a 100-watt bulb for 20 hours
• half a gallon of gas
• us from seeing one less aluminum can 500 years from now

Styrofoam/Polystyrene #6

• It is un-recyclable – you can’t make it into new Styrofoam. The industry wants you to assume it is – DON’T BUY IT!

• Each year Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam cups, enough every year to circle the earth 436 times.

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