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Recycling Facts

    • The recycling industry accounts for more than 20,000 private-sector jobs in Texas in the processing and end-market facilities adding $2.8 billion to the Texas economy annually.
    • Recycling waste materials supports about six times as many waste-related jobs as there would be if the same materials were treated as trash.
    • Americans dump 180 million tons of garbage annually — more than 40% of which is paper. High-grade printing, copying, and writing paper is the largest single component in a landfill.
    • Americans throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall 12 feet high stretching from Los Angeles to New York.
    • Every day American businesses generate enough paper to circle the Earth 20 times.
    • Recycling 13,600 tons of paper accounts for the saving of 231,200 trees, 44,880 cubic yards of landfill space, and 95,200,000 million gallons of water.
    • At least 38.9% of the U.S. waste stream is paper.
    • Making one ton of recycled paper uses only about 60% of the energy needed to make a ton of virgin paper.
    • Americans throw out about 85% of the office paper we use.
    • Every ton of recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oil.
    • U.S. businesses throw away 21 million tons of paper every year, the equivalent of 175 pounds per office worker.
    • The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.
    • During World War II when raw materials were scarce, 33% of all paper was recycled. After the war, this number decreased sharply.
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An East Texas Scrap Metal Recycler who specializes in the recycling of all grades of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal.