Plastic Water Bottles
1,500 water bottles each week
Beverage Cans
800 beverage cans per week
1,500 water bottles each week
- This is more than 3 tons per year.
- Saves 20 cubic yards of land fill space per year.
- We recycle enough bottles to power 1,500 incandescent light 60 W bulbs for 6 hours, or one bulb for 9,000 hours or 375 days.
- Recycling our plastic bottles save 4.5 tons of carbon a year.
- Use bins all around school
- Water bottle caps must be removed
- Plastic cups and utensils must be rinsed
- You can recycle plastic bags
Beverage Cans
800 beverage cans per week
- Aluminum cans are unique: once a can is recycled, it can reused again and again and again.
- We recycle over 40,000 cans per year; recycling one can saves the power equivalency of three hours of TV.
- We save 20,000 gallons of gas.
- Use bins all around school
- All cans must be rinsed (to avoid smell and bugs)
- NO METAL CANS OF FOOD!
Paper
1,800 pounds of paper per week
Ink Cartridges
Cell Phones
1,800 pounds of paper per week
- This amounts to 45 tons a year, or over 1,000 trees saved per school year.
- In one school year, we prevent over one ton of air pollution from being produced, and saved 145 cubic yards of landfill space.
- This means enough energy to power all of ACS for the same year by just recycled paper.
- Use bins all around school
- Cardboard counts!
- You can't recycle dirty paper
- ex. sandwich paper with mustard on it
- Batteries contain heavy metals such as mercury and lead which contaminate the environment
- Nearly 90% of all car batteries in the US are recycled
Ink Cartridges
- 97% of each ink cartridge is recyclable
- It takes about a gallon of oil to manufacture an ink cartridge from scratch
- Each recycled ink cartridge saves about 1.5 kg of waist
Cell Phones
- Only 20% of unused cell phones are recycled, most just lie in drawers and shelves at home
- The average cell phone user changes his phone every 18 months