Recycling Facts Review


  • On average, each one of us produces 4.4 pounds of solid waste each day. This adds up to almost a ton of trash per person, per year.
  • Every year, each American throws out about 1,200 pounds of organic garbage that can be composted.
  • About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material!
  • The highest point in Hamilton County, Ohio (near Cincinnati) is "Mount Rumpke." It is actually a mountain of trash at the Rumpke sanitary landfill towering 1045 ft. above sea level.
  • The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world's people generate 40% of the world's waste.
  • A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill.
  • Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away!
  • Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person.
  • If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
  • There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can be recycled.
  • We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year.
  • Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute!
  • Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy- equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.
  • On average, each one of us produces 4.4 pounds of solid waste each day. This adds up to almost a ton of trash per person, per year.
  • A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose -- and even longer if it's in the landfill.
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