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Recycling is the diversion or “steering away” of materials from the waste stream.
Materials or resources can be processed into new materials and/or manufactured into new products, instead of being buried in landfills as trash.
What Does Recycling Really Mean?
How many pounds of waste do Americans generate per year (before recycling)?
4.4 pounds of municipal solid waste (MSW) per day x 295,734,134 United States residentsx 365 days a year____________________ Americans throw away = 474,949,019,204 pounds per year
What Does Recycling Really Mean?
The Good NewsAmericans are recycling more – and the U.S. EPA hopes this will continue, setting a goal of 35%
MSW Recycling Rates 1960-2008
98 Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs) 31 Single Stream Facilities
Secondary Processing (included above) 8 Electronics Processing Plants (eCyclingsm Services) 1 Optical Sorting Plastics Facilities (Raleigh) 1 Secondary Processing Plant (Lakeville)
Materials Handled Recycled/Reused 8.5 Million Tons/Year of
Commodities Enough to fill the Empire State Building more than
12.5 times. Plastics and Niche Commodities from commercial
customers
Who We Are
Environmental Leader – by 2020 WM will:
• Help Power over two million homes with the waste we collect
• Manage more than 20 million tons of recyclables each year
• Provide over 25,000 acres of wildlife habitat at our landfills
• Make investments to reduce our fleet’s emissions by 15 percent and increase its efficiency by 15 percent
Processing and handling more than 8.5 million tons of material EQUALS:
Green house gas reductions equivalent to taking nearly 4.8 million cars off of the road each year
The energy used by nearly 1.4 million homes each year – more than all of the households in most cities
Saving more than 41 million trees
Environmental Savings
Aluminum – 44,000 Tons Recycled Energy savings equivalent to powering nearly
88,000 houses for one year 95% energy savings on the life cycle of the can Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy
to run a TV for 3 hours Enough aluminum is thrown away to rebuild the
nation’s commercial air fleet 4 times every year Greenhouse Gas Reduction equivalent to taking
nearly 126,000 cars off the road per year
Environmental Savings
Mixed Metals – 358,000 Tons Recycled Energy savings equivalent to powering 292,000
houses for one year 74% energy savings on the life cycle of the can Every pound of steel being recycled saves enough
energy to light a 60-watt bulb for 24 hours Enough iron and steel is discarded in the US to
continually supply the nation’s automakers Greenhouse Gas Reduction equivalent to taking
nearly 390,000 cars off the road per year
Environmental Savings
Plastics – 198,000 Tons Recycled If we recycled every plastic bottle we used, we
would keep 2 million tons of plastic out of landfills Energy savings equivalent to powering 86,000
houses for one year We use enough plastic wrap to wrap all of Texas
every year Greenhouse Gas Reduction equivalent to taking
54,000 cars off the road per year
Environmental Savings
Old Newspapers – 2,000,000 Tons Recycled Recycling of each ton of paper saves 17 trees and
7,000 gallons of water yearly Every year enough paper is thrown away to make a
12 foot wall from New York to California Energy savings equivalent to powering 317,000
houses for one year Greenhouse Gas Reduction equivalent to taking
773,000 million cars off the road per year
Environmental Savings
Environmental Savings
Old Corrugated Containers – 1,900,000 Tons Recycled Energy savings equivalent to powering 290,000
houses for one year Greenhouse Gas Reduction equivalent to taking nearly
1,400,000 cars off the road per year Making Corrugated Containers from virgin sources
creates sulfur dioxide. Making it from recycled sources cuts the pollution in half
Corrugated Containers manufactured from recycled products use about 75% of the energy to make them from virgin sources
Environmental Savings
Glass Containers – 545,000 Tons Recycled Recycling of one glass container saves enough energy
to light a 100-watt bulb for 4 hours 1 ton of glass made from 50% recycled materials
saves 250 pounds of mining waste Glass can be reused an infinite number of times; more
than 41 BILLION glass containers are made each year Greenhouse Gas Reduction equivalent to taking
36,000 cars off the road per year Energy savings equivalent to powering 14,000 houses
for one year
Paper Recovered Old Newspapers Corrugated Boxes Printing & Writing Office Paper Specialty Papers Cereal-type Boxes
New Materials Made Newspaper Corrugated Boxes Printing & Writing Office Paper Specialty Papers Tissue Paper Paper Towels Gift Wrap Paper Fiber Insulation
Recycling - Papers
Some of the companies we sell to and what is
made from our fiber: Smurfit-Stone AbitibiBowater Mountain Fiber Insulation US Green Fiber US Gypsum SP Newsprint Co Rock-Tenn
Old Newspaper
Some of the companies we sell to and what is
made from our fiber: Georgia-Pacific Smurfit-Stone Sunoco International Paper Caraustar Republic Paperboard Corrugated Services
Old Corrugated Containers
Some of the companies we sell to and
what is made from our fiber: International Paper Kimberly-Clark Georgia Pacific Marcal Paper Products
Printing/Writing, Office Paper, & Tissue
Glass Recovered Clear Glass Containers Amber Glass Containers Green Glass Containers Blue Glass Containers Flat/Plate Glass
New Materials/Uses Glass Containers Flat/Plate Glass Decorative Landscaping Terrazzo Flooring Tile Aggregate
Recycling – Glass
Some of the companies we sell to and what they
make from our glass: Strategic Materials Inc. Owens-Illinois (OI) Enviroglasproducts St Gobain Containers Gallo
Recycling – Glass
Plastics Recovered HDPE Natural (milk jugs) HDPE Colored (detergent bottles) PET (soda & water bottles) PVC (water and shampoo bottles) Film plastics Other plastics
New Materials/Uses New Plastics Bottles Clothing Toys Misc. Plastic products Carpet Fiber Plastic Lumber/Decking Terrazzo Flooring Tile Car Parts Piping
Recycling – Plastics
Some of the companies we sell to and what is made from our plastics: KW Plastics Southeastern Container Mohawk Wellman Envision Master Mark Trex Boise Cascade Poly America
Recycling – Plastics
Metals Recovered Aluminum Cans Aluminum Scrap Steel Food Cans Steel Scrap Non-Ferrous Metals
(Copper, Zinc, Gold, etc.)
New Materials/Uses New Aluminum Cans New Steel Cans Car Parts Airplane Parts Bicycle Parts Rebar New Misc. Non-ferrous
Metal Parts
Recycling – Metals
Some of the companies we sell to and what is
made from our metals: Anheuser-Busch Recycling AMG Industries David J. Joseph Tube City
Recycling – Metals
Organics Recovered Brush Tree Limbs Pallets Pulp Chips Clean Wood Leaves Misc. Organics
New Materials/Uses Wood Chips
(Natural & Colored) Wood Fuel Humus in Soil
Recycling – Organics
Some of the companies we sell to and what is
made from our organics: Rio Bravo (BioMass Fuel) Rebark Time Image Landscape Cascade Rock Aherns Landscape MSI
Recycling – Organics
We All Benefit from Recycling
The Recycling Industry: Provides stable, beneficial jobs Generates state and local government
revenues Stimulates capital investments Helps the environment Recycling is great for the economy and our
environmental health and sustainability
Recycling helps the environment by: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions Lessening the need for new landfills, thereby
preserving open space Saving energy Cutting air pollution Conserving resources for future generations
Waste Management is the largest recycler of municipal solid waste in North America
We All Benefit from Recycling