Fast Facts: Mar. 21
March 21, 2011
- Product packaging accounts for one-third of trash.
- Solid waste disposal is the third largest municipal government expense after police protection and education.
- 70 percent less energy is required to recycle paper compared with making it from raw materials.
- Once an aluminum can is recycled it can be part of new can within six weeks.
- Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates one job, land-filling the same amount of waste creates six jobs but recycling this much waste creates 36 jobs.
