• "For every 1 ton of plastic that is recycled we save the equivalent of 2 people’s energy use for 1 year, the amount of water used by 1 person in 2 month’s time and almost 2000 pounds of oil."

• Americans consume an average of 100 gallons of water daily, 75% of which comes from our bathrooms

• "Each of us uses approximately one 100-foot-tall Douglas fir tree in paper and wood products per year. (EPA, 2008)"

• Americans throw away enough metal preducts to supply all of the US's automakers on a continual basis.

• Glass will never wear out-it can be recycled for ever.

• "If all the glass bottles and jars collected through recycling in the U.S. in 94 were laid end to end, they'd reach the moon and half way back to earth."

• "Each year American throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam cups, enough every year to circle the earth 436 times."

•If 100,000 people stopped sending junk mail, we could save up to 150,000 trees annually. If a million people stopped, we could save up to a million and a half trees.