Recycling By The Numbers

TheNewEcologist.com Recycling By the Numbers RECYCLE GLASS 544,000 20 million 315 kg $160 billion Amount of CO2 not released into the atmosphere each time a metric that employs over 1.5 million people. ton of glass is used to create new glass products. Tons of electronic waste thrown away Value of the global recycling industry Trees saved if every household in the United States replaced just one roll of virgin fiber paper towels (70 sheets) with 100% recycled ones. each year. One ton of scrap from discarded computers contains more gold than can be produced from 17 tons of gold ore. CARD BOARD 9 cubic yards RECYCLE PAPER 79 million tons 5% 51.5% Amount of waste material diverted away from disposal in 2005 through recycling and composting. Fraction of the energy it takes to recycle aluminum versus mining & refining new Amount of landfill space saved by recycling one ton of cardboard. percentage of the paper consumed in that was recovered for recycling in 2005. aluminum. 98% : Percentage of glass bottles in Denmark that are refillable. 98% of those are returned by consumers for reuse. Top 5 Recycling Countries Switzerlantd 52% Austria 49.7% Germany 48% Netherlands 46% Norway 40% The Global Face of Recycling India A In Dharavi, India, many people make a living by creating their own recycling factories. It is estimated that the self-made recycling industry employs roughly 200.000 people. It's not merely taking care of waste, Europe 3 Austria takes the cake by recycling roughly b0% of its waste. O The United Kingdom recycles roughly 77% of its waste. Ireland, Italy, and Portugal are around the same percentage. but a way of life and a source of income. O India recycles roughly 4U% of their e-waste a year. South America Japan & China O In Brazil, nearly 500 cooperatives employ approximately 500,000 recycling collectors.This is a $3 billion industry. O The citizens of china who diligently collect recyclables off the street are numbered around 25 million people. These scrap collectors earn the equivalent of $150 a month which is roughly half of what a cab driver earns in that country in the same time frame. * Fifty percent of the 140,000 tons of trash generated daily in Brazil is recycled. O Chile opened its 1st electronic scrap recycling facility in 2005. A It is estimated that 20% of the countries waste is disposed of improperly in China. Peru opened its first recycling plantin 2007, which processes plastic packaging. O In Japan, recycling is a $360 billion dollar industry. Africa & Beijing has built the world's largest recycling facility and continues to install recycling bins. * The Glass Recycling Company has partnered with the government and glass manufacturers in South Africa in an attempt to increase the current glass recycling rate. This partnership increased recycling rates from O Beijing hopes to increase their recycling rate from 10% to 80% by 2010. 148.000 tons to 183.000 tons of glass recycling in roughly a year and a half. Sources: http://www.bbc.co.uk, http://planetgreen.discovery.com,http://earth911.com TheNewEcologist.com Recycling By the Numbers RECYCLE GLASS 544,000 20 million 315 kg $160 billion Amount of CO2 not released into the atmosphere each time a metric that employs over 1.5 million people. ton of glass is used to create new glass products. Tons of electronic waste thrown away Value of the global recycling industry Trees saved if every household in the United States replaced just one roll of virgin fiber paper towels (70 sheets) with 100% recycled ones. each year. One ton of scrap from discarded computers contains more gold than can be produced from 17 tons of gold ore. CARD BOARD 9 cubic yards RECYCLE PAPER 79 million tons 5% 51.5% Amount of waste material diverted away from disposal in 2005 through recycling and composting. Fraction of the energy it takes to recycle aluminum versus mining & refining new Amount of landfill space saved by recycling one ton of cardboard. percentage of the paper consumed in that was recovered for recycling in 2005. aluminum. 98% : Percentage of glass bottles in Denmark that are refillable. 98% of those are returned by consumers for reuse. Top 5 Recycling Countries Switzerlantd 52% Austria 49.7% Germany 48% Netherlands 46% Norway 40% The Global Face of Recycling India A In Dharavi, India, many people make a living by creating their own recycling factories. It is estimated that the self-made recycling industry employs roughly 200.000 people. It's not merely taking care of waste, Europe 3 Austria takes the cake by recycling roughly b0% of its waste. O The United Kingdom recycles roughly 77% of its waste. Ireland, Italy, and Portugal are around the same percentage. but a way of life and a source of income. O India recycles roughly 4U% of their e-waste a year. South America Japan & China O In Brazil, nearly 500 cooperatives employ approximately 500,000 recycling collectors.This is a $3 billion industry. O The citizens of china who diligently collect recyclables off the street are numbered around 25 million people. These scrap collectors earn the equivalent of $150 a month which is roughly half of what a cab driver earns in that country in the same time frame. * Fifty percent of the 140,000 tons of trash generated daily in Brazil is recycled. O Chile opened its 1st electronic scrap recycling facility in 2005. A It is estimated that 20% of the countries waste is disposed of improperly in China. Peru opened its first recycling plantin 2007, which processes plastic packaging. O In Japan, recycling is a $360 billion dollar industry. Africa & Beijing has built the world's largest recycling facility and continues to install recycling bins. * The Glass Recycling Company has partnered with the government and glass manufacturers in South Africa in an attempt to increase the current glass recycling rate. This partnership increased recycling rates from O Beijing hopes to increase their recycling rate from 10% to 80% by 2010. 148.000 tons to 183.000 tons of glass recycling in roughly a year and a half. Sources: http://www.bbc.co.uk, http://planetgreen.discovery.com,http://earth911.com TheNewEcologist.com Recycling By the Numbers RECYCLE GLASS 544,000 20 million 315 kg $160 billion Amount of CO2 not released into the atmosphere each time a metric that employs over 1.5 million people. ton of glass is used to create new glass products. Tons of electronic waste thrown away Value of the global recycling industry Trees saved if every household in the United States replaced just one roll of virgin fiber paper towels (70 sheets) with 100% recycled ones. each year. One ton of scrap from discarded computers contains more gold than can be produced from 17 tons of gold ore. CARD BOARD 9 cubic yards RECYCLE PAPER 79 million tons 5% 51.5% Amount of waste material diverted away from disposal in 2005 through recycling and composting. Fraction of the energy it takes to recycle aluminum versus mining & refining new Amount of landfill space saved by recycling one ton of cardboard. percentage of the paper consumed in that was recovered for recycling in 2005. aluminum. 98% : Percentage of glass bottles in Denmark that are refillable. 98% of those are returned by consumers for reuse. Top 5 Recycling Countries Switzerlantd 52% Austria 49.7% Germany 48% Netherlands 46% Norway 40% The Global Face of Recycling India A In Dharavi, India, many people make a living by creating their own recycling factories. It is estimated that the self-made recycling industry employs roughly 200.000 people. It's not merely taking care of waste, Europe 3 Austria takes the cake by recycling roughly b0% of its waste. O The United Kingdom recycles roughly 77% of its waste. Ireland, Italy, and Portugal are around the same percentage. but a way of life and a source of income. O India recycles roughly 4U% of their e-waste a year. South America Japan & China O In Brazil, nearly 500 cooperatives employ approximately 500,000 recycling collectors.This is a $3 billion industry. O The citizens of china who diligently collect recyclables off the street are numbered around 25 million people. These scrap collectors earn the equivalent of $150 a month which is roughly half of what a cab driver earns in that country in the same time frame. * Fifty percent of the 140,000 tons of trash generated daily in Brazil is recycled. O Chile opened its 1st electronic scrap recycling facility in 2005. A It is estimated that 20% of the countries waste is disposed of improperly in China. Peru opened its first recycling plantin 2007, which processes plastic packaging. O In Japan, recycling is a $360 billion dollar industry. Africa & Beijing has built the world's largest recycling facility and continues to install recycling bins. * The Glass Recycling Company has partnered with the government and glass manufacturers in South Africa in an attempt to increase the current glass recycling rate. This partnership increased recycling rates from O Beijing hopes to increase their recycling rate from 10% to 80% by 2010. 148.000 tons to 183.000 tons of glass recycling in roughly a year and a half. Sources: http://www.bbc.co.uk, http://planetgreen.discovery.com,http://earth911.com TheNewEcologist.com Recycling By the Numbers RECYCLE GLASS 544,000 20 million 315 kg $160 billion Amount of CO2 not released into the atmosphere each time a metric that employs over 1.5 million people. ton of glass is used to create new glass products. Tons of electronic waste thrown away Value of the global recycling industry Trees saved if every household in the United States replaced just one roll of virgin fiber paper towels (70 sheets) with 100% recycled ones. each year. One ton of scrap from discarded computers contains more gold than can be produced from 17 tons of gold ore. CARD BOARD 9 cubic yards RECYCLE PAPER 79 million tons 5% 51.5% Amount of waste material diverted away from disposal in 2005 through recycling and composting. Fraction of the energy it takes to recycle aluminum versus mining & refining new Amount of landfill space saved by recycling one ton of cardboard. percentage of the paper consumed in that was recovered for recycling in 2005. aluminum. 98% : Percentage of glass bottles in Denmark that are refillable. 98% of those are returned by consumers for reuse. Top 5 Recycling Countries Switzerlantd 52% Austria 49.7% Germany 48% Netherlands 46% Norway 40% The Global Face of Recycling India A In Dharavi, India, many people make a living by creating their own recycling factories. It is estimated that the self-made recycling industry employs roughly 200.000 people. It's not merely taking care of waste, Europe 3 Austria takes the cake by recycling roughly b0% of its waste. O The United Kingdom recycles roughly 77% of its waste. Ireland, Italy, and Portugal are around the same percentage. but a way of life and a source of income. O India recycles roughly 4U% of their e-waste a year. South America Japan & China O In Brazil, nearly 500 cooperatives employ approximately 500,000 recycling collectors.This is a $3 billion industry. O The citizens of china who diligently collect recyclables off the street are numbered around 25 million people. These scrap collectors earn the equivalent of $150 a month which is roughly half of what a cab driver earns in that country in the same time frame. * Fifty percent of the 140,000 tons of trash generated daily in Brazil is recycled. O Chile opened its 1st electronic scrap recycling facility in 2005. A It is estimated that 20% of the countries waste is disposed of improperly in China. Peru opened its first recycling plantin 2007, which processes plastic packaging. O In Japan, recycling is a $360 billion dollar industry. Africa & Beijing has built the world's largest recycling facility and continues to install recycling bins. * The Glass Recycling Company has partnered with the government and glass manufacturers in South Africa in an attempt to increase the current glass recycling rate. This partnership increased recycling rates from O Beijing hopes to increase their recycling rate from 10% to 80% by 2010. 148.000 tons to 183.000 tons of glass recycling in roughly a year and a half. Sources: http://www.bbc.co.uk, http://planetgreen.discovery.com,http://earth911.com TheNewEcologist.com Recycling By the Numbers RECYCLE GLASS 544,000 20 million 315 kg $160 billion Amount of CO2 not released into the atmosphere each time a metric that employs over 1.5 million people. ton of glass is used to create new glass products. Tons of electronic waste thrown away Value of the global recycling industry Trees saved if every household in the United States replaced just one roll of virgin fiber paper towels (70 sheets) with 100% recycled ones. each year. One ton of scrap from discarded computers contains more gold than can be produced from 17 tons of gold ore. CARD BOARD 9 cubic yards RECYCLE PAPER 79 million tons 5% 51.5% Amount of waste material diverted away from disposal in 2005 through recycling and composting. Fraction of the energy it takes to recycle aluminum versus mining & refining new Amount of landfill space saved by recycling one ton of cardboard. percentage of the paper consumed in that was recovered for recycling in 2005. aluminum. 98% : Percentage of glass bottles in Denmark that are refillable. 98% of those are returned by consumers for reuse. Top 5 Recycling Countries Switzerlantd 52% Austria 49.7% Germany 48% Netherlands 46% Norway 40% The Global Face of Recycling India A In Dharavi, India, many people make a living by creating their own recycling factories. It is estimated that the self-made recycling industry employs roughly 200.000 people. It's not merely taking care of waste, Europe 3 Austria takes the cake by recycling roughly b0% of its waste. O The United Kingdom recycles roughly 77% of its waste. Ireland, Italy, and Portugal are around the same percentage. but a way of life and a source of income. O India recycles roughly 4U% of their e-waste a year. South America Japan & China O In Brazil, nearly 500 cooperatives employ approximately 500,000 recycling collectors.This is a $3 billion industry. O The citizens of china who diligently collect recyclables off the street are numbered around 25 million people. These scrap collectors earn the equivalent of $150 a month which is roughly half of what a cab driver earns in that country in the same time frame. * Fifty percent of the 140,000 tons of trash generated daily in Brazil is recycled. O Chile opened its 1st electronic scrap recycling facility in 2005. A It is estimated that 20% of the countries waste is disposed of improperly in China. Peru opened its first recycling plantin 2007, which processes plastic packaging. O In Japan, recycling is a $360 billion dollar industry. Africa & Beijing has built the world's largest recycling facility and continues to install recycling bins. * The Glass Recycling Company has partnered with the government and glass manufacturers in South Africa in an attempt to increase the current glass recycling rate. This partnership increased recycling rates from O Beijing hopes to increase their recycling rate from 10% to 80% by 2010. 148.000 tons to 183.000 tons of glass recycling in roughly a year and a half. Sources: http://www.bbc.co.uk, http://planetgreen.discovery.com,http://earth911.com TheNewEcologist.com Recycling By the Numbers RECYCLE GLASS 544,000 20 million 315 kg $160 billion Amount of CO2 not released into the atmosphere each time a metric that employs over 1.5 million people. ton of glass is used to create new glass products. Tons of electronic waste thrown away Value of the global recycling industry Trees saved if every household in the United States replaced just one roll of virgin fiber paper towels (70 sheets) with 100% recycled ones. each year. One ton of scrap from discarded computers contains more gold than can be produced from 17 tons of gold ore. CARD BOARD 9 cubic yards RECYCLE PAPER 79 million tons 5% 51.5% Amount of waste material diverted away from disposal in 2005 through recycling and composting. Fraction of the energy it takes to recycle aluminum versus mining & refining new Amount of landfill space saved by recycling one ton of cardboard. percentage of the paper consumed in that was recovered for recycling in 2005. aluminum. 98% : Percentage of glass bottles in Denmark that are refillable. 98% of those are returned by consumers for reuse. Top 5 Recycling Countries Switzerlantd 52% Austria 49.7% Germany 48% Netherlands 46% Norway 40% The Global Face of Recycling India A In Dharavi, India, many people make a living by creating their own recycling factories. It is estimated that the self-made recycling industry employs roughly 200.000 people. It's not merely taking care of waste, Europe 3 Austria takes the cake by recycling roughly b0% of its waste. O The United Kingdom recycles roughly 77% of its waste. Ireland, Italy, and Portugal are around the same percentage. but a way of life and a source of income. O India recycles roughly 4U% of their e-waste a year. South America Japan & China O In Brazil, nearly 500 cooperatives employ approximately 500,000 recycling collectors.This is a $3 billion industry. O The citizens of china who diligently collect recyclables off the street are numbered around 25 million people. These scrap collectors earn the equivalent of $150 a month which is roughly half of what a cab driver earns in that country in the same time frame. * Fifty percent of the 140,000 tons of trash generated daily in Brazil is recycled. O Chile opened its 1st electronic scrap recycling facility in 2005. A It is estimated that 20% of the countries waste is disposed of improperly in China. Peru opened its first recycling plantin 2007, which processes plastic packaging. O In Japan, recycling is a $360 billion dollar industry. Africa & Beijing has built the world's largest recycling facility and continues to install recycling bins. * The Glass Recycling Company has partnered with the government and glass manufacturers in South Africa in an attempt to increase the current glass recycling rate. This partnership increased recycling rates from O Beijing hopes to increase their recycling rate from 10% to 80% by 2010. 148.000 tons to 183.000 tons of glass recycling in roughly a year and a half. Sources: http://www.bbc.co.uk, http://planetgreen.discovery.com,http://earth911.com