Recycling Facts

Some Chinese-made hair bands were fashioned from recycled condoms.

Recycling a single glass jar saves enough energy to power a television for up to 3 hours.

By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.

It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.

Sweden is so good at recycling, it has run out of garbage and now must import garbage from Norway to fuel its energy programs.

Brittany Bergquist and her 12-year-old brother Robbie saw a news report about a soldier's $7,600 phone bill from calling home. They started with $21 to help, then found a way to recycle old phones into calling cards. Their charity now reports more than 400 million minutes provided to deployed troops, and over 3,000 drop-off sites still collect old phones.