Waste Day

Check out our display in the hallway by Centennial for more updates throughout the week!

Every year, Americans throw away enough paper and plastic cups, forks, 

and spoons to circle the equator 300 times. ^{Clean Air Council}

Recycling one aluminum can saves an amount of energy 

equivalent to half that can filled with gasoline. ^{Green Net World}

North Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. ^{Green Net World}

Every Sunday, more than 500,000 trees are used to produce 

the 88% of newspapers that are never recycled. ^{Green Net World}

The average American discards 4.34 pounds of garbage every day. ^{Environmentalist Everyday}

The total volume of solid waste produced in the U.S. each year is equal to the weight of more than 247,000 space shuttles or 2.3 million Boeing 747 jumbo jets. ^{Environmentalist Everyday}

If we put all of the solid waste collected in the U.S. in a line of average garbage trucks, that line of trucks could cross the country, extending from New York City to Los Angeles, more than 100 times. ^{Environmentalist Everyday}

About 50 millions cell phones are replaced worldwide a month, 

and only 10% are recycled. ^{Dosomething.org}

Electronic items that are considered to be hazardous include, but are not limited to: 

• Televisions and computer monitors that contain cathode ray tubes 
• LCD desktop monitors 
• Laptop computers with LCD displays 
• LCD televisions 
• Plasma televisions 
• Portable DVD players with LCD screens. ^{Dosomething.org}

Composed by Joy '13 and Olivia '12