Glass
* Glass never wears out -- it can be recycled forever.
* Most bottles and jars contain at least 25% recycled glass.
* Recycling one glass bottle saves enough electricity to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours.
Metals
* In 2003, Washington residents recycled 17,608 tons of aluminum cans.
* Aluminum can recycling saves 95% of the energy needed to make aluminum from bauxite ore.
* Americans throw away enough steel every year to build all the new cars made in America.
* Tin cans are actually 99% steel, with a thin layer of tin added to prevent rusting.
Paper
* Seventy-five percent of a tree harvested for paper does not wind up as paper product.
* One ton of paper requires the use of 98 tons of various resources.
* Paper made from recycled paper instead of virgin fiber requires 70% less energy.
Plastic
* Americans use 4 million plastic bottles every hour! – Yet only 1 bottle out of 4 is recycled.
* In 1977, polyethylene terephthalate soda bottles were introduced to the market.
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