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Do you recycle? If you don’t, here are 12 amazing recycling
and waste statistics for you to think about, courtesy of earth911.com!
- About 34% of our municipal waste stream could be composted.
- Approximately 9,000 curbside recycling programs exist across the United States.
- 33,000,000 Americans throw out about 33 million tons of food every year.
- Recycling 1 glass bottle can power a computer for 30 minutes.
- Recycling 1 ton of mixed paper can save the energy equal to 185 gallons of gasoline.
- Recycling just 500 phone books could save 7,000 gallons of water
- 6 is the number of hours you could light a 60-watt bulb by recycling only 1 plastic bottle
- Recycling in the United States saved the carbon equivalent of removing 36 million cars from the road
- 200 feet of a two-lane highway can be paved by the recycled shingles from an average sized home
- When a ton of steel is recycled, 1,400 pounds of coal is conserved
- Recycling 1 can saves enough energy to run a TV for 2 hours.
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