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* Americans use enough corrugated cardboard in a year to
make a bale the size of a football field. About 40% of it
is recycled.
* If Americans recycled half our newsprint every year, we'd
need 3,200 fewer garbage trucks to collect municipal trash.
* Americans throw away enough used motor oil every year to
fill 120 supertankers. It could all be recycled.
* To make plastics, the U.S. uses about a billion barrels
of petroleum by-products each year. This is enough to fill
over 56,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
* Every year, Americans dispose of 1.6 billion pens, 2
billion razors and blades, and 18 billion diapers.
* Americans use 100 million steel and tin cans every day.
We recycle about 5% of them.
* According to the EPA, we create enough garbage every year
to fill a convoy of 10-ton garbage trucks 145,000 miles
long.
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