24 times.

24 times.

2.1 million tons

2.1 million tons

Composting 21 million cars

Go ahead cows… do your thing.

1 aluminum can

your iPod.

We Shouldn’t DISCARD the importance of this fact.

That's 60 billion per day or 21,900,000,000 per year.

Let’s Recap:  1.   The  average  person  generates  over  4  pounds  of  trash  every  day    

 and  about  1.5  tons  of  solid  waste  per  year.    2.  In  2009,  we  produced  enough  trash  to  circle  the  Earth  24  Ames.    3.  75%  of  waste  is  recyclable,  but  we  only  recycle  about  30%  of  it.    4.  If  we  composted  that  food,  it  would  reduce  the  same  amount  of    

 greenhouse  gas  as  taking  2  million  cars  off  the  road.    5.  Recycling  one  aluminum  can  saves  enough  energy  to  listen  to  a  

   full  album  on  your  iPod.    6.  Recycling  aluminum  cans  saves  95%  of  the  energy  used  to  

 make  new  cans.    7.  Americans  throw  away  25,000,000  plasAc  boLles  every  hour.    8.  Over  87%  of  us  have  access  to  curbside  paper  recycling  programs.    9.  In  2009,  Americans  threw  away  almost  9  million  tons  of  glass.    10.  In  2010,  paper  recycling  had  increased  over  89%  since  1990.    11.  If  every  American  recycled  just  one-­‐tenth  of  their  newspapers,  

   we  could  save  about  25  million  trees  each  year.  

Thanks! Now let’s

all launch recycling

campaigns that are

Thanks! Now let’s

all launch recycling

campaigns that are

Out of this world!

https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-recycling http://www.kab.org/site/PageServer?pagename=recycling_facts_and_stats

images: Wikipedia  Trash  Pic  h/p://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/LixaoCatadores20080220MarcelloCasalJrAgenciaBrasil.jpg    Earth  -­‐  h/p://fav.me/dz6h6h  recycle  bins  h/p://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Recycling_in_CuriRba.JPG  Cows  Mourgufile  h/p://mrg.bz/0PpQQt  Tractor  trailer  By  Ellio/  Brown  [CC-­‐BY-­‐2.0  (h/p://creaRvecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)],  via  Wikimedia  Commons  treehugger  h/p://tcsnews.com/wp-­‐content/uploads/2013/11/treehugger.jpg  funny  puppy  h/p://cdn.morguefile.com/imageData/public/files/j/jade/preview/fldr_2008_11_17/file000285173883.jpg  Aluminum  can  squashed  h/p://pixabay.com/staRc/uploads/photo/2014/01/02/13/34/socdrink-­‐237584_640.jpg  PlasRc  Bo/les  h/p://farm8.staRcflickr.com/7194/6952860289_b8065829d7_o.jpg  blue  recycle  bin  h/p://pixabay.com/staRc/uploads/photo/2012/04/16/13/31/red-­‐36016_640.png  

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