When filled in, it implies that the product is manufactured from recycled material. Look for the Mobius loop on household items, so that they can be properly sorted and removed from the waste stream. The average Canadian produces about 2 kilograms of solid waste per day, more than almost any citizen in the world. The total time it takes a householder to recycle is a little over two minutes per day. Recycling can reduce your disposal costs.
Recycling saves natural and non-renewable resources.
In Canada, an area of forest the size of Vancouver Island is cut down every four years to meet the demand for paper products. 40,000 trees are cut down eachday just to produce the newsprint for Canada's daily papers. One tonne of recycled bond paper saves about 68 trees. One family's yearly supply of newspapers can be recycled into enough insulation for one house. The energy saved by recycling one glass bottle will light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.