America Recycles Day- November 15

Recycling Facts and Figures from www.americarecyclesday.org

• Twenty years ago, only one curbside recycling program existed in the United States. Today, there are more than 10,000 curbside programs in the United States.
• Today, the U.S. recycles 33% of its waste, a rate that has almost doubled during the past 15 years.
• Recycling saves energy and reduces greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. If the recycling rate for aluminum and steel cans, plastic PET and glass containers, newsprint and corrugated packaging were to increase a mere 10%, an additional 3.9 million tons of materials would be recycled, saving enough energy to:
• Heat 1.5 million American homes in a moderate climate for one year.
  
• Provide the required electricity to 1.8 million Americans for one year.
• Save Americans about $957 million in avoided costs for barrels of crude oil.