Senior Project

What percentage of Aluminum cans are wasted?

http://www.container-recycling.org/facts/aluminum/
-More than half of the 100 billion cans sold in the U.S. in 2005 were landfilled.

http://www.container-recycling.org/facts/aluminum/dirty.htm
-About 95 million tons of greenhouse gases were produced by the global aluminum industry in 2005.
-In 2005, 50.7 billion U.S. cans were wasted, resulting in the emission of 75,000 tons of SOx and NOx.


What percentage of plastic bottles is wasted?

http://www.environmentfirst.info/recycle.php
-Every ton of plastic bottles recycled saves about 3.8 barrels of oil.
-1.5 million barrels of oil are used to produce plastic watter bottles in the US per year. That much energy could power 250,000 homes or fuel 100,000 cars for a year
-If every American household recycled just one out of every ten HDPE bottles they used, we’d keep 200 million pounds of the plastic out of landfills every year
-Five 2-liter recycled PET bottles produce enough fiberfill to make a ski jacket; 36 recycled bottles can make 1 square yard of carpet