Recycling In A Landfill

Aluminum takes 200-500 years to fully degrade in a landfill. One ton of recycled Aluminum saves 10 cubic yards of landfill space. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours. Glass takes 1,000,000 years to fully degrade in a landfill. One ton of recycled glass saves 2 cubic yards of landfill space. The United States throws away enough glass every week to fill a 1,350-foot building. Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to light a 100-watt lightbulb for four hours. Plastic takes up to 1,000 years to degrade in a landfill. Enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the Earth four times. Americans throw away 4.5 million tons of office paper each year. That’s enough to build a wall of paper 12 feet
high from New York to Los Angeles. Every Sunday, 500,000 trees are used to produce the 88% of newspapers that are never recycled.