Recycling Facts

Glass bottle recycling

Recycling one glass bottle can save enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours.

Glass jar recycling

Recycling one glass jar can save enough energy to run a television for 3 hours.

Aluminum recycling

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of petrol.

We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year.

Recycling aluminum cans saves 95 percent of the energy used to make the cans from virgin ore.

Recycling one tonne of aluminium saves the equivalent in energy of 2,350 gallons of petrol. That's equivalent to the electricity used by the typical home in a 10-year period.

Wasted Energy

In the UK, the energy we waste as a nation each year is now growing close to the equivalent of powering an additional 7 million non-existent homes.