# In a lifetime, the average American will throw away 600 times his or her adult weight in garbage. This means that each adult will leave a legacy of 90,000 lbs. of trash for his or her children.

# Recycling all of your home's waste newsprint, cardboard, glass, and metal can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 850 pounds a year.

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

# Enough energy is saved by recycling one aluminum can to run a TV set for three hours or to light one 100 watt bulb for 20 hours.

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

# Annually, enough energy is saved by recycling steel to supply Los Angeles with electricity for almost 10 years.

# You can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one new one.

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

# In this decade, it is projected that Americans will throw away over 1 million tons of aluminum cans and foil, more than 11 million tons of glass bottles and jars, over 4 and a half million tons of office paper and nearly 10 million tons of newspaper. Almost all of this material could be recycled.

# Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates 1 job, landfilling the same amount creates 6 jobs, recycling the same 10,000 tons creates 36 jobs.

# Every Sunday, the United States wastes nearly 90% of the recyclable newspapers. This wastes about 500,000 trees!

# Everyday Americans buy 62 million newspapers and throw out 44 million. That's the equivalent of dumping 500,000 trees into a landfill every week.