Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for three hours.

It takes an aluminum can 500 years to breakdown in a landfill, but only six weeks to be recycled and back on a shelf.

Each of us generates an average of 4.4 pounds of trash per day. During an American's lifespan, he/she will throw away 60 times his/her adult weight in garbage, leaving approximately 90,000 pounds of trash for his/her children.

Recycling a three foot stack of newspapers equals a 67 foot tree.

One gallon of oil can pollute a million gallons of water.