Save the earth, save the kittens, and im-fucking-press Matthew!!!
- American consumers and industry throw away enough aluminum to rebuild the entire U.S. commercial air fleet every 3 months.
- Every Sunday, the United States wastes nearly 90% of the recyclable newspapers. This wastes about 500,000 trees!
- American's throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall 12 feet high stretching from Los Angeles to New York City.
- Americans use more than 67 million tons of paper per year, or about 580 pounds per person. (That�s like an airplane weight of paper!!!..... rounding up)
- Every year more than 900 million trees are cut down to provide raw materials for American paper and pulp mills.
- Plastic bags and other plastic rubbish thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year. THAT INCLUDES GOLDFISH YOU BASTARDS!!!
- Most families throw away about 40 kg plastic a year.
- From 1988 to 1995, 5.6 billion glass containers were recycled by Consumers Glass; this is equivalent to 26 glass containers each year for every Canadian. (Noot Good)
- If everyone in the U.S. recycled just 1/10 of their newsprint, we would save the estimated equivalent of about 25 million trees a year.
- One ton of recycled paper saves 3,700 pounds of lumber, 24,000 gallons of water, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4,000 kilowatts of energy and 7,000 gallons of water!
-One ton of recycled paper uses: 64% less energy, 50% less water, 74% less air pollution, saves 17 trees and creates 5 times more jobs than one ton of paper products from virgin wood pulp.
- Making recycled paper instead of new paper uses 64 percent less energy and uses 58 percent less water.
- Recycling one glass bottle in the making of a new glass container saves enough energy to keep a 100 watt light bulb illuminated for four hours.
- If all the glass bottles and jars recycled in Canada in 1995 were laid end to end, they would circle the earth four times around the equator.
- Annually, enough energy is saved by recycling steel to supply Los Angeles with electricity for almost 10 years.
- 99% of all beer cans and 97% of all soft drink cans are made of aluminum.
- The average aluminum can in the U.S. contains 40% post-consumer recycled aluminum. It requires only 5% as much energy when a can is made of recycled aluminum as compared to virgin ore!
- In 1994, 3.1 million tons of aluminum waste was generated: 2.1 million tons were aluminum containers and packaging, such as soft drink and beer cans.
- You can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one new one.
- Enough energy is saved by recycling one aluminum can to run a TV set for three hours or to light one 100 watt bulb for 20 hours.
- Five recycled plastic bottles make enough fiberfill to stuff a ski jacket.
- Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.
- It takes 2 plastic soft drink bottles to make enough polyester fiber for a baseball cap.
- The energy saved by recycling 1 bottle will power a computer for 25 minutes.
- Each year, Americans throw away 25 trillion Styrofoam cups.
- One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.
- Recycling all of your home's waste newsprint, cardboard, glass, and metal can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 850 pounds a year.
MATERIAL |
PLEASE DO RECYCLE |
PLEASE DO NOT RECYCLE |
Aluminum |
Beverage Cans and |
No Food Trays, Pie Plates, Folding Chair Frames, or Aluminum Swastikas |
|
Milk, Juice and |
No Foil Juice Bags or Dead Dogs |
Cardboard |
Corrugated Cardboard Boxes, Dry Food Boxes (cake, cereal, cracker with no liner) & Shoe Boxes and the Cardboard Barriers of Racism and Insecurity in America |
No Packing Material, Bar Soap or Detergent
Boxes, Towel or Tissue Rolls, Pizza Boxes, |
Glass |
Glass Food and |
No Light Bulbs, Window |
Magazines |
All Magazines and |
No Paperback or Hardbound Books or used strippers |
Metal Cans |
Food Cans made |
No Other Metals like Metal Swastikas or Loaded Guns |
Newspaper |
Newspaper and All Inserts |
No Bags, Rubber Bands or spiked leather jackets. |
Paper |
Computer and Writing Paper, Junk Mail, Brown Paper
Grocery Bags, |
No Facial or Toilet Tissue, Paper Towels or Plates, Napkins, Gift Wrap, Diapers, Pet Food Bags, FedEx, Self-sealing Envelopes or dollar bills that have been urinated on. |
Plastics |
All Plastic Jugs and Bottles With Screw-top Lids or the Base larger than the Neck, Regardless of Recycling # |
No Plastic Bags, Motor Oil or Pool Chemical Containers, Plastic Cups or Clear Food Containers, Styrofoam OR President Bush collector's edition dildos |
MATERIAL |
PLEASE DO RECYCLE |
PLEASE DO NOT RECYCLE |
Over 1 million tons of aluminum cans and foil
More than 11 million tons of glass bottles and jars
Over 4 and a half million tons of office paper
Nearly 10 million tons of newspaper
Stop the terror, stop the slaughters, stop the rape of mother earth.
