November 2008

In terms of energy, throwing away one aluminum can is like dumping 2 gallons of gasoline on the ground....

Americans throw away the equivalent of more that 30 million trees in newsprint each year....

Americans purchase nearly 3 billion dry-cell batteries every year to power radios, toys ... Although "dry cell" batteries represent less than one (1%) percent of municipal solid waste weight, they account for fifty-two (52%) percent of all cadmium and eighty-eight (88%) percent of all mercury found in landfills....