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ENVIRONMENTALLY
FRIENDLY RECYCLING TRIVIA
 Everyday,
every man, woman, and child generates 4 ½ pounds of trash in
the U.S. California alone generates forty millions tons of this
trash a year. - Indoor air pollution
is one of the greatest threats to public health of all environmental
problems (contact EcoSLO @ (805) 544-1777 for a less-toxic household
cleaners booklet).
- Forests reduce the
severity of flooding and act as the earth's lungs by eliminating
much of the carbon dioxide build-up generated by humans and
our machines.
- A people without
children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees
is almost as hopeless.-Theodore Roosevelt
- Motor oil never
wears out it just gets dirty. Oil can be re-fined and used again
and again. This reduces our reliance on imported oil.
- More than 60% of
all oil related pollution is caused by improper disposal of
motor oil. One quart of motor oil can pollute 250,000 gallons
of water.
- Recycling one glass
bottle saves enough electricity to light a 100-watt bulb for
four hours.
 The
U.S. generates more trash than any other country in the world.
We fill 63,000 garbage trucks every day-lined up they would
stretch from San Francisco to Los Angeles (about 400 miles). - American Forests
magazine reports that deforestation condemns at least one species
of bird, mammal or plant to extinction daily.
- A ton of glass made
from raw materials creates 384 pounds of mining waste. Using
only half recycled glass cuts down the waste by 75%.
- A ton of glass made
from raw materials produces almost 28 pounds of air pollution.
By using recycled glass that air pollution drops by about 20%.
- Manufacturing aluminum
from old aluminum soda cans and other sources of used aluminum
takes 95% less energy than producing aluminum from completely
new materials.
- Recycled aluminum
also cuts related problems associated with manufacturing (such
as sulfur dioxides, which creates acid rain) by 95%.
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Most of the information
found on this page is from the following sources:
 The
Recycler's Handbook, published by Earth Works Press- The Town of Cary recycling
web site
- Waste Statistics,
by Chaz Miller, Waste Age Magazine
- The Ecology of Everyday
Life, The National Audubon Society, by Valerie Harms and other
writers
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