- Recycling one aluminum can, will save enough energy to listen to a full album on your iPod. Recycling 100 cans could light your bedroom for two whole weeks!
- Americans compile more than 200 million tons of garbage each year, enough to fill Busch Stadium from top to bottom twice a day.
- Americans constitute roughly 5% of the world’s population but generate nearly 40% of the world’s total waste.
- 100,000 turtles and marine mammals, such as dolphins, whales and seals, are killed by plastic litter every year.
- One million seabirds are killed by marine litter every year.
- Enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the earth four times.