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Fun Facts about Recycling

Recycling also saves money. It costs around $30 per ton to recycle. It cost $50 per ton to deliver garbage to a landfill and another $60-75 to incinerate (burn) it.
Did you know that 75% of garbage is recyclable but we only recycle around 30%!
The average American throws out around 4.6 pounds of garbage everyday, that more than 251 tons every year!
34% of the annual garbage thrown away is paper products and paper is recyclable! The average American uses 17 trees a year in paper and other wood products.
We throw away enough wood and paper each year to heat 50,000 homes for 20 years!
The average American receives 500 pieces of junk mail every year! Most people don’t even open it and just throw it away.
The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can light a light bulb for over 4 hours.
Recycling one aluminum saves enough energy to watch a T.V for 3 hours!
If you lined up the amount of plastic bottles thrown away every year it would circle the Earth 4 times!
It takes 14 million trees to makes all the paper bags used and 12 million barrels of oil to make all the plastic bags used every year!
You can recycle bags by reusing them when you shop or bring your own cloth bags when shopping.
Did you know that most batteries can be recycled? Batteries that are thrown away can cause air and water pollution, how? Batteries contain a lot of chemicals such as mercury, lead and others that can cause humans to get sick.