Recycling FYI
Recycling FYI
Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:21The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world's people generate 40% of the world's waste.
Recycling FYI
Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:20The highest point in Ohio is "Mount Rumpke," which is actually a mountain of trash at the Rumpke sanitary landfill!
Recycling FYI
Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:20The US population discards each year 16,000,000,000 diapers, 1,600,000,000 pens, 2,000,000,000 razor blades, 220,000,000 car tires, and enough aluminum to rebuild the US commercial air fleet four times over.
Recycling FYI
Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:19Out of every $10 spent buying things, $1 (10%) goes for packaging that is thrown away. Packaging represents about 65% of household trash.
Recycling FYI
Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:18On average, it costs $30 per ton to recycle trash, $50 to send it to the landfill, and $65 to $75 to incinerate it.
Recycling FYI
Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:17An estimated 80,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using enough aluminum foil to cover over 50 acres of space -- that's almost 40 football fields. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.
