Welcome to the Recycling Information Center

You will be amazed at some of the recycling facts we have compiled for you.

• Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours!
  
• 350,000 aluminum cans are produced every minute!
  
• More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product.
  
• Once an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part of a new can within six weeks.
  
• During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.
  
• There is no limit to the amount of times aluminum cans can be recycled.
  
• We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year.
  
• At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold?

• To produce each week's Sunday newspaper, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
  
• If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
  
• During World War II when raw materials were scarce, 33% of all paper was recycled. After the war, this number decreased sharply.
  
• Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year: about 680 pounds per person.
  
• In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space.
  
• In 1993, nearly 36,000,000 tons of paper in the U.S.-twice as much in 1980.
  
• 27% of the newspapers produced in America are recycled.