INTERESTING RECYCLING FACTS:

• How many hockey pucks can you imagine? In 2000, 252,306 tonnes of residential waste was recycled in the Greater Vancouver Regional District. That equals the weight of approximately 1.4 billion hockey pucks.

• 60 days is how quickly an aluminum can might be collected, transported for recycling, melted down, made into a new can, refilled and placed back on the grocer’s shelf. -Just the facts, GVRD

• Recycling one glass bottle in the making of a new glass container saves enough energy to keep a 100 watt light bulb illuminated for four hours

• One recycled aluminum can saves enough energy to operate a television for 3 hours of TV viewing!

• Recycling one tonne of newspaper saves:
- 19 trees
- 3 cubic metres of landfill
- 4,000 kilowatt hours of energy
- 29,000 litres of water
- 30 kgs. of air pollution effluent

[Source: http://www.rcbc.bc.ca]