•Recycling Preserves Natural Resources
In the United States, we cut down over 2 million trees every day to produce newsprint and paper products. Recycling the print run of a single Sunday issue of the New York
Times would spare 75,000 trees.
 Recycling 1 ton of aluminum saves 4 tons of bauxite (aluminum ore) and 1540 lbs of petroleum coke and pitch.
Using recycled materials for
manufacturing saves water.
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•By using recycled paper, 60% of the water normally needed in paper manufacturing is saved; by using recycled steel, there is a 40% water savings, and a 50% water savings by using recycled glass.
• Producing aluminum from scrap instead of bauxite ore cuts energy use by 95 percent, yet we still throw away more than a million tons of aluminum per year.
•Manufacturing products from recycled paper reduces water pollution by 35% and air pollutants by 73%.