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- Recycling conserves our valuable natural resources.
- Recycling saves energy.
- Recycling can save money and create jobs.
- Paper products use up at least 35 percent of the world's annual commercial wood harvest.
- Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours.
- The average house uses one acre of trees to build.
- The United States is the number one trash producing company in the world at 1,609 pounds per person, per year.
- If everyone on earth consumed as many resources as Americans do, we would need four planet earths to provide enough resources. In other words, 5% of the world's population (the United States), consumes 25% of the world's resources.
- Paper products make up the largest part of our trash (approx. 40%).
- If all of our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
- Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
- Plastic bags and other plastic thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year.
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