Waste Management Green Tips
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to power a television for three hours and burn a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. It’s a bright idea for preserving more of our valued natural resources.- In 2007, Americans recycled only 25% of their water bottles – allowing 38 billion of them to go to waste. With your help, we can reverse the flow and conserve the fossil fuels used for plastic production.
- The average office employee generates 1.5 lbs. of paper a day –almost all of which can be recycled. Add it up to a ton of office paper, and you can help save 24 trees, 380 gallons of oil and 7,000 gallons of water.
- 75% of your trash can be recycled but only 25% is. Do your part, reduce, reuse, and recycle.
- Over 17 billion catalogs were mailed out last year. That’s 60 catalogs for every person in America. Companies like greendimes.com will remove you from unwanted mailing lists.
- By composting your food and table scraps, you can keep up to 200 pounds of food out of landfills each year.
- More than one million plastic bags are used every 30 minutes. Do your part by bringing a cloth bag every time you go shopping.
- If everyone at Staples Center changed the margins in their Word documents from 1 inch to half inch, we could save 8.5 million pieces of paper a year.
- There is 3 times as much electronic waste as regular waste. Check with your city to see if e-waste recycling is available for your old TV or computer. Or you can donate these items to Salvation Army or Goodwill.
- Be sure to properly dispose of paint. One gallon of paint can leak into the ground and pollute 250,000 gallons of drinking water.
- One compact fluorescent lamp can save $30 in energy costs over its lifetime, reduce coal consumption by 200 pounds and prevent more than 400 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions. You can recycle your used compact fluorescent lamps, batteries and electronics from home by going to www.thinkgreenfromhome.com.
- With energy costs and oil dependence on the rise, the need for renewable power is greater than ever. That’s why Waste Management is using the resources at our disposal to create the energy equivalent of saving over 14 million barrels of oil per year. It’s a powerful idea we’re proud to drive forward.
- Our natural resources are worth protecting. That’s why Waste Management works with communities and the Wildlife Habitat Council to use the property adjacent to our landfills as safe havens for native animal and plant life. You might say it’s in our nature to do what’s good for the environment.
- Trees do more than beautify our world. They help clean the air of carbon dioxide – a major greenhouse gas. As North America’s largest recycler, we’re ensuring that more trees can keep up the good work. And with thousands of commercial and community recycling programs nationwide, the results are truly adding up.
- Waste Management’s California truck fleet cut its emissions to an equivalency of taking over 28,000 cars off the road.
- Waste Management’s renewable energy projects produce enough energy to power more than one million homes, and save the equivalent of more than 14 million barrels of oil per year.
.jpg)
