Did You Know?
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours?
Making a can out of recycled aluminum takes only 5 percent of the energy needed to make an aluminum can from raw materials?
Steel cans are 100% recyclable?
For every pound of steel recycled, 5,450 BTU's of energy are conserved, enough to light a 60-watt light bulb for over a day?
One out of every $11 that Americans spend on food goes for packaging?
Americans go through 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour?
When a steel mill uses recycled scrap, it cuts related water pollution and mining wastes by 70%?
Paper recycling efforts conserve an estimated 200,000 trees each year.
Facts reprinted from Clean Texas 2000 Environmental Bulletins.
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Source: TNRCC Environmental Tips That Help You Take Care of Texas. Let It Rot! Compost
TNRCC Environmental Bulletin, Mulching and Compost
Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service, Backyard Composting Wastes to Resources