Thought of The Day: How Much Do We Waste?

Here are some crazy statistics:

• In the U.S., 4.39 pounds of trash per day and up to 56 tons of trash per year are created by the average person.
• Every year we fill enough garbage trucks to form a line that would stretch from the earth, halfway to the moon.
• We throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
• We throw away enough aluminum cans to rebuild our commercial air fleet every three months, and enough iron and steel to supply all our nation's automakers every day.
• Throwing away one aluminum can wastes as much energy as if that can were 1/2 full of gasoline.
• Every year, nearly 900,000,000 trees are cut down to provide raw materials for American paper and pulp mills.
• Recycling an aluminum soda can saves 96% of the energy used to make a can from ore, and produces 95% less air pollution and 97% less water pollution.
• Sixty percent of the world's lead supply comes from recycled batteries.
• It takes 90% less energy to recycle an aluminum can than to make one from scratch.

For some good ways to stop your waste go here.

Via [Clean Air Council]