Trash to Cash: Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees, 2 barrels of oil (enough to run the average car for 1,260 miles), 4,100 kilowatts of energy (enough power for the average home for 6 months), 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60 pounds of air pollution.

Environmental Defense Fund: Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial fleet of airplanes every 3 months.

Environmental Protection Agency: About 80% of what Americans throw away is recyclable, yet our recycling rate is just 28%.

Eco-Cycle: Over 1⁄2 million trees are saved each year by recycling paper in Boulder County.
National Forest Protection Alliance: There are more roads in our National Forests than the entire U.S. Interstate Highway system.

Colorado Recycles: Recycling creates 6 times as many jobs as land filling.

Environmental Defense Fund: Recycling glass instead of making it from silica sand reduces mining waste by 70%, water use by 50%, and air pollution by 20%.

Eco-Cycle: Recycling just one aluminum can saves enough energy to operate a TV for 3 hours.

California Department of Conservation: If we recycled all of the newspapers printed in the U.S. on a typical Sunday, we would save 550,000 trees--or about 26 million trees per year.

Steel Recycling Institute: The energy saved each year by steel recycling is equal to the electrical power used by 18 million homes each year - or enough energy to last Los Angeles residents for eight years.

Seventh Generation Co. : If every household in the U.S. replaced just one roll of 1,000 sheet virgin fiber bathroom tissues with 100% recycled ones, we could save: 373,000 trees, 1.48 million cubic feet of landfill space, and 155 million gallons of water.

Environmental Protection Agency: The U.S. is 5% of the world's population but uses 25% of its natural resources.

UN Population Fund: Every two seconds, one person joins the planet's expanding urban population, and in 2008, for the first time in human history, a majority of people will live in cities.