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Recycling Facts
- At the current recycling levels (26%), the US is saving enough energy through recycling to provide electricity for 9 million homes.
- The dollar value placed on the manufacturing energy saved by recycling the mix of materials collected in a typical curbside collection program amounts to nearly $200 per ton of materials recycled.
 In a recent study examining ten northeastern states, recycling was
found to have added $7.2 billion in value to recovered materials through processing and manufacturing activities. These activities employed approximately 103,000 people, 25% of them in
materials processing and 75% in manufacturing. - In 1995 the United States recovered 56 million tons of materials from the municipal solid waste stream and based on 1996-1997 national price information, these materials have a total market
values of $3.6 billion.
- Manufacturing products from recovered or recycled materials can reduce the energy required to manufacture a product by 94%
- By reducing air and water pollution and saving energy, recycling offers an important environmental benefit: it reduces emissions of the greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous
oxide, and chloroflurocarbons, that contribute to global climate change.
- Recycling reduces the need to extract virgin materials from the land,
 thereby reducing land
disturbances and pollution, which ultimately reduces the degradation of the earth's ecosystems.
- Each year our nation generates enough garbage to fill a convoy of trash trucks reaching halfway to the moon.
- Every man, woman, and child produces 4.3 pounds of trash per day or, 12.9 pounds of trash per household per day, or nearly 1600 pounds per year.
- In the workplace, each employee produces 1.61 pounds waste per day.
- The United States generates more waste per capita than any other Nation.
- Newspapers can be recycled back into newsprint 6-8 times.
- The use of recycled steel is estimated to save 60-70% of the energy required to produce steel cans from ore.
- For every ton of office waste recycled, 17 trees, 410 gallons of fuel, and 8 cubic yards of landfill space are saved.
- Recycling produces up to 74% less air pollution.
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Copyright 2006. All rights reserved.
For more information or comments, please send us e-mail.
Tri Community Recycling and Sanitary Landfill
P.O. Box 605
Caribou, ME 04736
(207) 473-7840 |
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