eco facts

 

• Recycling conserves our valuable natural resources.
• Recycling saves energy.
• Recycling can save money and create jobs.
• Paper products use up at least 35 percent of the world's annual commercial wood harvest.
• Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours.
• The average house uses one acre of trees to build.
• The United States is the number one trash producing company in the world at 1,609 pounds per person, per year.
• If everyone on earth consumed as many resources as Americans do, we would need four planet earths to provide enough resources. In other words, 5% of the world's population (the United States), consumes 25% of the world's resources.
• Paper products make up the largest part of our trash (approx. 40%).
• If all of our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
• Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
• Plastic bags and other plastic thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year.