• Prevents or reduces air and water pollution and improves our health.
• Reduces the amount of waste that must be incinerated or buried in landfills.
• Cuts the time and money spent on complex waste management processes.
• Conserves natural resources, since fewer raw materials need to be extracted and processed.
• Saves energy.
• Makes us more sustainable – we’re borrowing less material and energy from our children's future.

Recycling Benefits Facts

• Preventing 1 ton of paper waste saves 15 mature trees
• Paper recycling instead of making paper from new timber saves up to 70% in energy
• Producing glass from recycled glass rather than from virgin materials saves 30% of the energy
• Producing aluminum from recycled metal instead of bauxite saves more than 90% of the energy that would otherwise be required by primary production
• Making new steel from recycled scrap saves up to 75% in energy needed