About 630 steel cans are recycled every second!

By Recycling 1 ton of paper you save 17 trees

Glass never wears out -- it can be recycled forever.

Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.

Approximately 3.8 million tons of rubber tires (or 257 million scrap tires- about 1 tire per person in the United States) were generated in 1995.

In a lifetime, the average American will throw away 600 times his or her adult weight in garbage.

Each of us generates on average 4.4 pounds of waste per day per person.

American's throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall 12 feet high stretching from Los Angeles to New York City.

Motor oil never wears out, it just gets dirty. Oil can be recycled, re-refined and used again, reducing our reliance on imported

Five recycled plastic bottles make enough fiberfill to stuff a ski jacket

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