1.6 million tons of household hazardous waste is the amount Americans generate per year.
70 percent of heavy metals come from e-waste, including 40 percent of all lead.
20 percent is the 2005 national recycling rate for glass. Glass is 100 percent recyclable.
1.6 million tons of household hazardous waste is the amount Americans generate per year.
Americans disgard 4 million tons of office paper a year: enough to build a paper wall 12 feet high from New York to California
We save enough energy recycling ONE aluminum can to run a TV set for 3 hours.
It takes an entire forest, 500,000 trees, to supply Americans with their Sunday newspaper
Americans go through 2.5 million plastic bottles every year
You can save 10% of your heating and cooling costs by tighting up & insulating your air ducts.
40% of the energy you use in your home is for heat.
We save 17 trees for every ton of recycled newspaper.
Most bottles and jars contain as much as 25% recycled glass...
Most Americans make more garbage in one day than the average person in all other countries makes in a week...
It's best to water plantings and grass either early in the morning or in the evening. That way, the water doesn't evaporate quickly under the sun's heat.
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