10 Facts About Recycling
#1. The average person generates over 4 pounds of trash every day and about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year. #2. Americans make more than 200 million tons of garbage dumpster each year, enough to fill Busch Stadium from top to bottom twice a day. Next time you’re at a sporting event or tailgate, host a trash-free tailgate using only recyclable materials. #3. The EPA estimates that 75% of the American waste stream is recyclable, but we only recycle about 30% of it. #4. We generate 21.5 million tons of food waste each year. If we composted that food, it would reduce the same amount of greenhouse gas as taking 2 million cars off the road. #5. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to listen to a full album on your iPod. Recycling 100 cans could light your bedroom for two whole weeks. #6. The Container Recycling Institute (CRI) estimates that the 36 billion aluminum cans landfilled last year had a scrap value of more than $600 million. #7. Americans throw aw...