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.