- The US is the #1 trash producing country in the world. This means 5% of the world’s population generates 40% of the world’s waste.
- Up to 70% of the waste from commercial food processing operations can be recycled.
- On average each person produces almost one ton of solid waste per year.
- Americans use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum cans every year. Those cans landfilled will still be cans in 500 years.
- Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper per year; about 680 pounds per person.
- Glass bottles would take over 4,000 years or more to decompose…even longer if it is landfilled.
- Rain forests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute!
- Recycling 1 ton of plastic saves 7.4 cubic yards of landfill space
