Each ton of recycled
paper can save
17
trees,
380
gallons of
oil,
three
cubic yards of
landfill space,
4,000
kilowatts of
energy and
7,000
gallons of
water!
Americans use more
than
67
million tons
of paper per year, or about
580
pounds per
person.
Paper products
make up the largest part (approximately
40
percent) of
our trash.
Making recycled
paper instead of new paper uses
64
percent less
energy and uses
58
percent less
water.
Every day American
businesses generate enough paper to circle the earth
20
times !
Every day
Americans recover more than
2
million pounds
of paper! That's about
40
percent of the
paper we use.
Paper products use
up at least
35
percent of the
world's annual commercial wood harvest.
The
highest point
in Ohio is said to be "Mount Rumpke," which is a "mountain" made up
of trash -- at a sanitary landfill!
Rumpke is one of the nation's largest waste and recycling
companies.
One tree can
filter up to
60
pounds of
pollutants from the air each year.
Each year,
Americans throw away
25
trillion
Styrofoam cups.
In Britain, over 9
million "nappies" or disposable
diapers, are used every day.
More than
1/3
of all fiber
used to make paper comes from recycled paper.
Every Sunday,
Americans waste 90 percent of recyclable newspapers. This wastes
500,000 trees!
A new landfill
generally
costs
more than an
old one that has filled up. This is because it typically costs more
to comply with new environmental regulations, to buy the land, to
construct the landfill and to transport waste because new landfills
generally are farther away than older ones.
Every year more
than
900
million trees
are cut down to provide raw materials for American paper and pulp
mills.
Only
1 percent of the world's water supply
is usable; 97 percent is in the ocean and 2 percent is frozen.