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For Kids - Do You Know?

...why we need to Reduce, Reuse,
Recycle, and Rethink?

  • Americans throw away about 40 billion soft drink cans and bottles every year. Placed end to end, they would reach to the moon and back nearly 20 times. Recycling an aluminum soda can saves 96% of the energy used to make a can from ore, and produces 95% less air pollution and 97% less water pollution.

  • If all the other people on the Earth used as much "stuff" as we do in the U.S., there would need to be three to five times more space just to hold and sustain everybody.

  • Every pound of solid waste that goes into a landfill results in 2 lbs of greenhouse gases.

  • Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.

  • Every glass bottle recycled saves enough energy for a 100 watt light bulb to be lit for 4 hours.

  • You'll save two pounds of carbon for every 20 glass bottles that you recycle.

  • Only about one-tenth of all solid garbage in the United States gets recycled.

  • The average American creates 56 tons of trash every year.