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Glass can take 4000 years to decompose.
The energy saved from recycling one bottle can light a 100-watt light bulb for 4 hours.
Recycling a bottle causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than making a new one.
An aluminum can takes 500 years to decompose.
Over 80 billion aluminum cans are used per year.
There is no limit to how many times aluminum or glass can be recycled.
Packaging accounts for 65% of household trash.
One quart of motor oil disposed of improperly can contaminate up to 2 million gallons of fresh water.
Used motor oil can be re-refined into new oil, processed into fuel oils, and used as raw materials for the petroleum industry.
One gallon of used motor oil equals 42 gallons of crude oil in making the same 2.5 quarts of lubricating oil.
U.S. population 2008, 303,781,423, and weighing in at 1,609 pounds of trash per person per year.
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