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Did You Know

1.  The American household now uses an average of 100 gallons of water per day - that is enough to fill 1600 drinking glasses.

2.  75% of the water used in our homes, is used in our bathrooms (according to the California Energy Commission - 2006).

3.  Letting your tap (faucet) run for 5 minutes, uses up as much energy as letting a 60watt light bulb run for 14 hours straight.

4.  Filling a bath tub needs approx 70 gallons of water whereas taking a 5 minute shower uses only 10 - 25 gallons. 

5.  If your toilet is pre 1992 you probably have an inefficient model that uses 3.5 - 7 gallons per flush. Installing a new ‘Water Sense' labeled toilet will only use 1.3 gallons (or less) per flush, saving a whopping 60%!!!

6.  This is AMAZING. If only 1% of American households change their toilets to the new high efficiency model, we would save 38 million kilowatt hours of electricity - that is enough to power 43,000 homes for 1 month. Visit this website to see how you can save. savewateramerica

7.  Turning off the tap in the morning and evening whilst brushing your teeth, can save up to 8 gallons of water per day. That is almost 3,000 gallons per year.

METALS / STEELS

1.  Recycling one Aluminum can saves enough energy to run a 100 watt bulb for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours and a TV for 2 hours.

2.  Americans use 100 million tin and steel cans per day.

3.  Americans throw away enough Aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.

4.  Recycling Aluminum save 95% of the energy used initially to make it from scratch. That means you can make 20 cans from recycled material and use the same energy it takes to make 1 can from new material. WOW!

5.  When you throw away 1 Aluminum can, you wasted as much energy as if you had half filled the same Aluminum can with gasoline, and poured it into the ground.

6.  THIS IS A MIND BLOWER. According to ‘Keep America Beautiful - 2006', Recycling Aluminum saves 95% of the energy originally used to make it new from raw materials. Energy saved from recycling 1 ton of Aluminum is the equal to the amount of electricity the average home uses in 10 years.

7.  36 Billion Aluminum cans were landfilled last year. They had a scrap value of $600million.

8.  We have enough Aluminum in circulation now, that if we recycled all of it, we would never have to make more.

PLASTICS

1.  Every year we make enough plastic film to shrink wrap Texas.

2.  5 recycled plastic water bottles creates enough Fiberfill to stuff a ski jacket.

3.  It takes 1 plastic bottle in a landfill, up to 1,000 years to biodegrade fully.

4.  Sales of Bottled Water in the USA in 1997 were 3.8 billion units. In 2005 this number increased by almost 7 to 29.5 billion units sold.

5.  Sales of Bottled Water in the USA in 1997 were 3.8 billion units. In 2005 this number increased by almost 7 to 29.5 billion units sold.

PAPER

1.  Just over 48% of office is recovered for recycling. This becomes raw material for paperboard, tissue and printing and writing papers (according to ‘Keep America Beautiful' - 2006).

3.  Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 mature trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 2 barrels of oil and 4,100 kilowatt hours of electricity (enough to power an average American home for 5 months).

4.  Americans discard 4million tons of office paper every year. That is enough to build a 12 foot high wall from New York to California

5.  Americans throw away the equivalent of 30 million trees in newsprint each year.