Why Recycle?

It’s simple….recycling benefits both the economy and the environment:

1. Recycling = The Right Thing To Do!
2. Utilizing recycled materials when producing new products decreases the amount of energy needed during the production process – for instance, recycling one aluminum can will save the energy equivalent of running a television set for three hours.
3. Recycling helps eliminate unnecessary waste in our already overflowing landfills.
4. The recycling industry creates jobs nationwide.
5. Recycling helps preserve our precious natural resources, such as trees, water, coal, iron ore, minerals and limestone, just to name a few.
6. To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
7. Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
8. Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!
9. An estimated 80,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using enough aluminum foil to cover over 50 acres of space -- that's almost 40 football fields. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.
10. On average, it costs $30 per ton to recycle trash, $50 to send it to the landfill, and $65 to $75 to incinerate it.
11. Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. All of these jars are recyclable!

These recycling facts have been compiled from various sources including the National Recycling Coalition, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Earth911.org. While we make every effort to provide accurate information, we make no warranty or guarantee that the facts presented here are exact. We welcome all polite corrections to our information.