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Did You Know That:
- Every ton of recycled office paper saves approximately 380 gallons of oil.
- Americans use 50 million tons of paper each year, consuming over 850 million trees.
- Recycling half of the paper used throughout the world today would free 20 million acres of forest land from paper production.
- Each man, woman and child in this country produces an average of four pounds of trash every day, or almost 1,500 pounds a year.
- The average person in an office discards more than 175 pounds of valuable high-grade paper a year.
- Making aluminum from recycled aluminum uses 90 to 95 percent less energy than making aluminum from bauxite ore.
- Recyclable paper makes up about 25 percent of San Francisco's garbage.
- As many as 17 trees are required to make one ton of paper.
- Every year, 13 billion beverage containers are sold in California -- that's 10 percent of the total beverage container sales in the U.S. Californians send more than 4 billion containers to landfills.
- The energy saved from one recycled aluminum can will operate a television set for three hours.
- The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will light a 100-watt light bulb for four hours.
- The equivalent of almost three barrels of oil is saved for every ton of office paper recycled.
- Californians throw away the equivalent of seven pounds of garbage per person per day. This exceeds New York's rate of five pounds per person and Japan's rate of two pounds per person.
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