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The recycling industry accounts for more than 20,000 private-sector jobs in Texas in the processing and end-market facilities adding $2.8 billion to the Texas economy annually. |
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Recycling waste materials supports about six times as many waste-related jobs as there would be if the same materials were treated as trash. |
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Americans dump 180 million tons of garbage annually — more than 40% of which is paper. High-grade printing, copying and writing paper is the largest single component in a landfill. |
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Americans throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall 12 feet high stretching from Los Angeles to New York. |
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Every day American businesses generate enough paper to circle the Earth 20 times. |
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Recycling 13,600 tons of paper accounts for the saving of 231,200 trees, 44,880 cubic yards of landfill space and 95,200,000 million gallons of water. |
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At least 38.9% of the U.S. waste stream is paper. |
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Making one ton of recycled paper uses only about 60% of the energy needed to make a ton of virgin paper. |
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American’s throw out about 85% of the office paper we use. |
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Every ton of recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oil. |
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U.S. businesses throw away 21 million tons of paper every year, the equivalent of 175 pounds per office worker. |
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The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp. |
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During World War II when raw materials were scarce, 33% of all paper was recycled. After the war, this number decreased sharply. |
