Recycling a four-foot stack of newspapers saves the equivalent of one 40-foot fir tree, that tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.

One ton of recycled paper saves 3,700 pounds of lumber (17 trees!), 24,000 gallons of water and saves enough energy to power a television for 31 hours.

Making paper from recycled material uses 60% less energy than making virgin paper.

If every household in the U.S. reused a paper bag for one shopping trip, about 60,000 trees would be saved.

Recycling one ton of cardboard saves over nine cubic yards of landfill space, 9% of the average garbage dump consists of cardboard boxes (that's 100 cubic yards of waste just from cardboard).

Recycling corrugated cardboard cuts the emissions of sulfur dioxide in half and uses about 25% less energy than making cardboard from virgin pulp.

If all morning newspapers read in this country were recycled, 41,000 trees would be saved daily and 6 million tons of waste would never end up in landfills.

Recycling 1 ton of paper uses 7,000 fewer gallons of water, saves 35% of the water pollution and 70% of the air pollution produced in making new paper, uses 4100 KWH less energy, and saves 390 gallons of oil.

North America has 8% of the world's population, consumes 1/3 of the world's resources and produces almost half of the world's non-organic garbage.

70% of landfilled waste could be either reused or recycled.

One liter of oil can contaminate a million liters of ground water.

In North America , approximately 20% of our paper, plastic, glass and metal goods are currently made from recycled material- experts believe that 50% could be easily achieved.