Show TRASH FACTS F Americans go through 25 million plastic bottles every hour over enough in a year to circle the earth four times The Handbook We throw throwaway away enough glass bottles and jars to fill 1350 foot twin t towers of New Yorks York's World Trade Center every two weeks k Environmental Defense Fund it Mo More than half of f all plastic we He throw throwaway away each year roughly 5 tons is packaging The R cycler's s Handbook Every year Americans throw out enough aluminum to rebuild our c commercial commer commercial commer- commer cial air fleet four times enough steel t to literally rebuild Manhattan and enough wood and paper pape to heat 5 million homes for years The Handbook There are 18 billion disposable diapers or 45 million tons discarded annually annually annually annu annu- ally in the United States this equates to a trail placed to end-to-end that would stretch form fonn the earth to the moon and back again seven times Bio cle Americans throw throwaway away enough office paper each year to build a foot 12 high wall of paper from New York City to Los Angeles The Handbook 11 In a lifetime the ave average ge American will throw away way times his or her adult weight in garbage If you add it up this means that a pound adult will leave a legacy of pounds of trash for his or her cl children ildren |