1. UJIA It takes 17 average- sized trees to make one ton of paper.

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3. Each of us generates 4.4 pounds of waste per day

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5. 350,000 aluminium cans are produced every minute

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7. If everyone in the U. S. recycled just 1/10 of their newsprint, we would save the estimated equivalent of about 25,000,000 trees a year

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9. Five recycled two-liter soda bottles can be used to make one square foot of carpet

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11. More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of tinfoil. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it

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13. One-third of the water used in most homes is flushed down the toilet

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15. The highest point in Ohio is said to be "Mount Rumpke," which is a "mountain" made up of trash -- at a sanitary landfill! Rumpke is one of the nation's largest waste and recycling companies.

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17. In Britain, over 9 million "nappies" or disposable diapers, are used every day