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A person creates an average of 4.4 pounds of waste each day. Each year, enough energy is saved by recycling steel to supply Los Angeles with electricity for almost 10 years. Americans throw away enough aluminum every 3 months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet. You can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy required to make one new one. Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates 1 job, putting the same amount of waste in a landfill creates 6 jobs, recycling the same 10,000 tons creates 36 jobs. Every Sunday the US wastes almost 90% of the recyclable newspapers, which wastes about 500,000 trees. Everyday Americans buy 62 million newspapers and throw out 44 million, which is equivalent to dumping 500,000 trees into a landfill each week. If every person in the United States recycled 1/10 of their newsprint, it would save an estimated 25 million trees per year. |
