A few environmentally-related figures worth noting
4 – The number of pounds of trash the average person generates every day.
89 – The increase in the percentage of recycled paper between 1990 and 2010.
1 million – The number of years that glass takes to fully degrade in a landfill.
30 – The minimum number of days it can take for a glass container to go from a recycling bin to a store shelf.
120,000 – The number of aluminum cans recycled every minute nationwide.
75 – The percent of American waste that the EPA estimates is recyclable. Only about 30 percent of it is actually recycled.
