Fun Facts

To produce each Sunday's newspapers 500,000 trees must be cut down!

Recycling 1 ton of paper saves around 682.5 gallons of oil, 26,500 liters of water and 17 trees.

Packaging makes up 1/3 or more of our trash.

U.S offices use 12.1 trillion sheets of paper a year.

With all the paper we waste each year, we can build a 12 foot high wall of paper from New York to California!

If all the aluminum that Americans threw away in one month were stacked on top of each other, they would reach the moon.

Every Californian generates approximately 6 pounds each of trash per day! There's everything from paper, uneaten food, construction leftovers, cut grass, plastic, glass, metal, old batteries, computers, phones, and tons of other "stuff."

It has been estimated that on average a school-age child using a disposable lunch generates 67 pounds of waste per school year. That equates to 18,760 pounds of lunch waste for just one average-size elementary school.

A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to two million gallons of fresh water.

Since California's beverage container recycling program began in 1987, Californians have recycled more than 120 billion bottles and cans, enough to circle the earth more than 375 times.

So far, in 2016, 115,845,000 tons of paper have been produced all around the world… and still counting!

Even in our modern, high-tech world, most packaging is still not recyclable, meaning that ⅔ of our trash and waste is from packaging!

Recycling just 1 ton of paper will save about 682.5 gallons of oil, 26,500 liters of water, and 17 trees!