Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch television for 3 hours

Amazing and weird fact about recycling: 

Did You Know? Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch television for 3 hours. Yup, that’s how important recycling is! The average person has the chance to recycle 25,000 cans in their lifetime – that’s 75,000 hours of television!

U.S. recycling levels are currently 21.4% (recent EPA funded Yale University Study)

When U.S. recycling levels reach 75% it will generate 1.5 million new jobs in the U.S. (net).

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When U.S. recycling levels reach 75% it will be the environmental and CO2 equivalent of removing 55 million cars from U.S. roads each year.