1.- Recycling one plastic bottle can saves the energy to power a 60 watt light bulb for 60 hours.
2.- The energy saved from recycling only 1 plastic bottle can power a 100 watt light bulb for almost 60 minutes.
3.- One normal glass bottle contains over 25 percent recycled glass but green bottles can contain as much as 90 percent recycled glass.
4.- Seventeen trees are spared for every tonne (1,000 kg) of paper used for recycling.
5.- Recycling just one aluminium can saves the energy to run a TV set for 3 hours or to light a 100 watt light bulb for twenty hours.
6.- It takes just twenty-five pop bottles to make one fleece jacket.
7.- Every steel can is 100 percent recyclable.
8.- A 13 watt compact fluorescent light produces the same light as a 60-watt incandescent bulb.
9.- If all aluminium cans were recycled, there would be 14 million fewer dustbins to be landfilled every year.
10.- Recycling just one glass bottle can saves the energy to power a computer for 25 minutes.
11.- When you throw out household stuff, you're throwing out the embodied energy used to make it!
12.- A study found that in 83% of cases, recycling is the most efficient method to dispose of household waste.
13.- Recycling is more efficient in densely populated areas.
14.- Recycling aluminium cans saves 95% of the energy required to make the same amount of aluminum from its virgin source, bauxite.
