Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.  If this paper were recycled, we could save trees, and reduce costs since recycled paper costs less to process than making paper from raw materials does.  Plus, recycling paper saves space in America’s increasingly crowded landfills.  Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television  for three hours and is the equivalent of saving a half a gallon of gasoline.   If it were recycled,the metal from that can you just threw away could be reused and be back into another can on the shelf of a store somewhere in less than two months.

Americans throw away about 25,0000 plastic beverage bottles every hour.  Recycling these bottles saves twice as much energy as burning them would produce.  Similarly the energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials