- 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.
- Edmonton Master Recycler Program
- King County Master Recycler Program
- Marion County Master Recycler Program
- Montgomery County Master Recycler Program
- Tucson Master Recycler Program
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