Glass

• Every month we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper.
• The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours.
• A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose—even longer if it's in a landfill.

Trash/Lanfills

• Although 75 percent of our trash can be recycled the EPA set a national goal of 25 percent for 1992.
• The first real recycling program was introduced in New York City in the 1890s.
• By 1924, 83 percent of American cities were separating some trash items to be reused.
• About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material!