- Plastics take about 400 years to break down in a landfill.
- It takes one million years for a glass bottle to break down in a landfill.
- Aluminum takes 500 years to break down in a landfill.
- Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for 3 hours.
- To create just one kilogram of consumer goods, manufacturers create five kilograms of waste.
- North America produces enough garbage each day, to fill 70,000 garbage trucks. Lined up bumper to bumper, over a year, they would stretch halfway to the moon.