We encourage comments and participation about our program. Thank you for reducing, reusing, and recycling. Americans use enough cardboard each year to make a bale as big as a football field, and as high as the World Trade Center. One person uses two pine trees worth of paper products each year. In 1988, Americans used enough kraft paper for a person to take a brown bag lunch to school or work for 64 million years.
Packaging makes up one third of our trash.
Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island is the second largest manmade object seen from space. The landfill produces enough gas daily to heat 50,000 homes. In one year Americans throw away enough plastic soda bottles that if placed end to end, would circle the Earth four times. Paper can be recycled up to seven times depending on how long the fibers are.