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FUN RECYCLING FACTS
From Burlington Free Press
- Since the modern process for producing aluminum was developed by Alcoa founder Charles Martin Hall in 1886, more than 70 percent of all the virgin aluminum ever made remains in use.
- Currently, some 50 percent of the aluminum beverage cans consumed in this country are being recycled. This is well below world standards: - Brazil: 94.4 percent - Japan: 90.9 percent - Germany: 89 percent - Global Average: 63 percent - Western Europe: 57.7 percent
- The newspaper you put in your blue bin today could be recycled and have some portion of it land back on your doorstep as a new Free Press within two to three weeks.
- Here's the breakdown of a household's trash and recyclables: - 9 percent non blue-bin recyclables (e.g. fabrics, scrap metal). - 19 percent blue-bin recyclables. - 33 percent compostables. - 39 percent landfill material.
- Americans throw out 694 plastic bottles every second, according to National Geographic.
- Regarding recycled toilet paper, the United States could save 470,000 trees, 1.2 million cubic feet of landfill space and 169 million gallons of water if everyone in the US traded one roll of regular toilet paper for a recycled roll, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
- Since the modern process for producing aluminum was developed by Alcoa founder Charles Martin Hall in 1886, more than 70 percent of all the virgin aluminum ever made remains in use.
- Currently, some 50 percent of the aluminum beverage cans consumed in this country are being recycled. This is well below world standards: - Brazil: 94.4 percent - Japan: 90.9 percent - Germany: 89 percent - Global Average: 63 percent - Western Europe: 57.7 percent
- The newspaper you put in your blue bin today could be recycled and have some portion of it land back on your doorstep as a new Free Press within two to three weeks.
- Here's the breakdown of a household's trash and recyclables: - 9 percent non blue-bin recyclables (e.g. fabrics, scrap metal). - 19 percent blue-bin recyclables. - 33 percent compostables. - 39 percent landfill material.
- Americans throw out 694 plastic bottles every second, according to National Geographic.
- Regarding recycled toilet paper, the United States could save 470,000 trees, 1.2 million cubic feet of landfill space and 169 million gallons of water if everyone in the US traded one roll of regular toilet paper for a recycled roll, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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