Paper and Plastic Recycling

Paper recycling also offers major environmental and economic benefits. The substitution of entirely recycled fibres for virgin fibres in paper manufacturing could result in reductions of 58% in water consumption, 35% in water pollution, 74% in air pollution and 23% in energy demand.

An ecological way to dispose of your waste

More than 2.4 billion pounds of plastic bottles were recycled in 2008. Although the amount of plastic bottles recycled in the U.S. has grown every year since 1990, the actual recycling rate remains steady at around 27 percent.

Recycling 1 ton of plastic saves 7.4 cubic yards of landfill space.

Recycling 1 pound of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic bottles, which include soft drink and water bottles, saves approximately 12,000 BTUs (British thermal unit) of heat energy. And, producing new plastic products from recycled materials uses two-thirds less energy than is required to make products from raw(virgin) materials.