RECYCLE

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RECYCLE REUSE

• Here is a bulletin board I had up in my building
  as agood educational board that would make
  people thinkabout the choices they made when
  using things andthrowing things out. My school
  was also trying toexpand their recycling program
  throughout thesemester, so I piggybacked off
  their initiatives andcreated this board.
• Ray JosephsResident AssistantMarist
  CollegePoughkeepsie, NY

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Reduce
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The philosophy or practice of not creating or
generating waste materials.
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Facts and tips on reduction

• During the winter, you can save as much as 3 of
  the energy your furnace uses simply by lowering
  your thermostat one degree F (if it's set between
  65 F and 72 F).
• Most cars on U.S. roads carry only one person. We
  have so much extra room in our 140 million cars
  that everyone in Western Europe could ride with
  us.
• Purchase durable and long-lasting goods.
• Turn off the water faucet when brushing your
  teeth. This simple act can save 9 gallons of
  water every time you brush.

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Reuse
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The use of a product or package at least twice,
without changing its original form.
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Facts and tips on reuse.

• If every household reused a paper grocery bag for
  one shopping trip, about 60,000 trees would be
  saved.
• Bring your grocery, produce bags back to the
  supermarket, and reuse them.
• Use the backside of paper to take notes and do
  scratch work.
• Turning empty jars into containers for leftover
  food.
• Purchasing refillable pens and pencils.

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Recycle
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The separation, collection and recovery of useful
materials for manufacture into new products or
raw materials.
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Facts and tips on recycling

• By recycling one ton (2,000 lbs.) of paper, we
  save 17 trees 6,953 gallons of water 463
  gallons of oil 587 pounds of air pollution 3.06
  cubic yards of landfill space and 4,077 Kilowatt
  hours of energy.
• Recycled plastic is made into plastic lumber,
  clothing, flower pots, insulation for sleeping
  bags ski jackets, car bumpers and more.
• Recycling one aluminum can saves enough
  electricity to run a TV for three hours.
• The steel from the more than 84 of appliances
  (39 million) recycled last year yielded enough
  steel to build about 160 football stadiums.

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Every year the U.S. fills enough garbage trucks
to form a line that would stretch from the
earth, halfway to the moon.
Every year, the United States generates
approximately 230 million tons of "trash"
Each person creates about 4.6 pounds of trash
per day.
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The U.S. has 3,091 active landfills and over
10,000 old municipal landfills.
Every year the U.S. fills enough garbage trucks
to form a line that would stretch from the
earth, halfway to the moon.