Recycing Drive Pictures from November Recycling Day.

Recycling one aluminum can will save enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours or is the equivalent of 1/2 gallon of gasoline. We've become active in recycling for Sierra County. So far we've jointed the Bountiful Alliance's Recycling Project and have met some great people. We've hosted a poster contest whose winner will be announced next week. Sierra County Recycling Project Meetings 2nd Tuesday of each month. TorC library. Recycling happens last saturday of each month for now. We hope to get a regular collection station set up in the next couple of months. Other Recycling Facts: Paper
If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about 700 of them. A supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are in the U.S.!!!
Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person.
Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!

The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of paper would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide.
Plastic
Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away!Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!

Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.
Glass
Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. All of these jars are recyclable!
Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute!
Facts from: Environmental Protection Agency, and Earth911.org.