Did you know?

Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to light a 100 watt light bulb for four hours!
Two million plastic bottles are thrown away every hour in the U.S.! Bottles recycled at our center are used by the Georgia carpet industry to make high quality carpet.
Oh the power! Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a computer for three hours!
Only 1% of the estimated 500 billion plastic grocery bags used every year are recycled. Bags in landfills take up to 1,000 years to decompose.
Most printer cartridges can be recycled up to six times and are guaranteed to work as well as brand new ones.
-Paper and cardboard combined make up 73% of the materials in the landfill. When you recycle, you help save energy and forests.
Every ton of cardboard recycled saves 7,000 gallons of water!
U.S. businesses throw away enough paper annually to build a paper wall 12 feet high from Sandy Springs to San Francisco!
Every ton of paper that is recycled saves approximately 4 barrels of oil, and enough energy to heat and air condition the average North Fulton home for over 5 months!
-If the thermostats in every house in America were lowered 1 degree Fahrenheit during the winter, the U.S. would save 230 million barrels of crude oil.
One out of every 3 pounds of the waste that Americans generate is for packaging. That adds up to 77 million tons, enough to fill the Superdome 37 times!
The average person in North Fulton produces approximately 7 pounds of municipal solid waste.
One gallon of improperly disposed motor oil can contaminate one million gallons of fresh water.
Cigarette butts are the most littered item in America. Providing receptacles at bus stops, building entrances, and other transition points can help reduce the impact of cigarette litter.
It takes 60 days for a can to journey from the recycling bin through the recycling process and back on store shelves.
Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy needed to produce new aluminum from raw materials.
About 290 million scrap tires are generated annually, around one tire for every American. To keep your tires out of the waste stream, consider retreading them
Approximately 130 million cell phones are discarded annually in the United States. Recycling your cell phone keeps toxic materials, including lead, out of the environment.
Trucks with uncovered loads are one of the primary sources of litter.