• Paper plus cardboard combined make up 73% of the materials disposed in landfills.
• Americans throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall 12 feet high stretching from Los Angeles to New York City.
• One ton of recycled paper uses 64% less energy, 50% less water, 74% less air pollution and 35% less water pollution, saves 17 trees and creates 5 times more jobs than one ton of paper products from virgin wood pulp.
• One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.
• Compared to virgin ore, aluminum recycling brings potential energy savings of 95% and reduces emissions by 99%.
• Recycling one ton of aluminum saves the equivalent of 2,350 gallons of gas or the amount of electricity used by the typical home over a period of 10 years.
• Aluminum is the most cost-effective material to recycle and can be recycled indefinitely; reprocessing does not damage its structure.
• Tin recycling saves an estimated 2,600 kilowatt hours of electricity per ton.