That means for every soft drink bottle that is recycled, enough energy is saved to run a television set for an hour and a half. The junk mail that Americans receive in one day could produce enough energy to heat 250,000 homes. Thirty gallons, or 135 litres, of water is used for the average shower in the United States. There are nearly 63,000 trees in the 314 acres. To save a 40-foot tree, a stack of newspapers averaging 4 feet in thickness must be recycled.
Tires burning at landfills generate huge amounts of noxious air pollution.
This problem first came to national attention when hundreds of thousands of tires at an East Coast landfill in the United States burned for three years during the 1980s. Tire fires are difficult, and sometimes impossible, to extinguish. A leaking toilet can waste as much as 200 gallons of water a day without making a sound. A leaking toilet can waste as much as 200 gallons of water a day without making a sound. A standard garden hose can put out as much as 20 gallons of water per minute.