Did you know...

	The average grocery bag full of newspaper weighs 17 pounds
	We use more than 50,000,000 tons of paper each year
	Recycling one ton of paper saves one acre of trees
	Every year, Americans throw away enough office and writing paper to build a wall 12 feet high, stretching from Los Angeles to New York City. 34.2% of all garbage is paper.

ALUMINUM
In 1998, 62.8% of the 102 billion aluminum cans produced were recycled: a total of 64 billion cans. Last Year 9.1 billion pounds of aluminum were recycled. Of that amount, almost 2 billion pounds came from used beverage cans. Aluminum beverage cans make up 99% of soft drinks packaged in metal cans. Every aluminum beverage can has an average of 51.4% recycled content.
Source: The Aluminum Association

Did you know...

	It takes 95% less energy to make new aluminum cans from recycled cans then from raw materials
	We discard enough aluminum to rebuild our commercial airline fleet every three months
	Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for 3 hours

GLASS
About 35% of all glass bottles and jars sold in the United States were recycled in 1998. 41% of all glass bottles and jars manufactured in the U.S. are currently recycled.
Source: The Glass Packaging Institute

Did you know...

	Glass can be recycled an infinite number of times
	Up to 30% less energy is used to make glass from recycled materials than from new cullet
	The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will light a 100-watt bulb for four hours
	Because it takes glass so long to decompose, the bottle tossed on the side of the road today may still be littering the landscape in the year 3000

PLASTIC
The number of companies handling and reclaiming post-consumer plastics is nearly six times greater than it was in 1996.

HDPE is the most common resin type accepted at post-consumer processing facilities.

Nearly 1.4 billion pounds of post-consumer plastic bottles were recycled in 1997, a 4% increase from 1.32 billion in 1996.
Source: American Plastics Counsel