Recycle, get with the program!

• Organize a recycling program in your office or community if one isn't already in place.
• Recycle your old newspapers. If everyone in the United States recycled one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25 million trees every year.
• Recycle your old glass bottles. The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will light a 100-watt bulb for four hours.
• Recycle your old tin cans when you can. Recycling and reusing the material in tin cans reduces related energy use by 74 percent; air pollution by 85 percent; solid wastes by 95 percent; and water pollution by 76 percent.
• Recycle your old aluminum cans when you can. When you toss out one aluminum can you waste as much energy as if you'd filled the same can half full of gasoline and poured it onto the ground.
• Recycle your old plastic soda bottles, milk bottles, detergent bottles, and whatever other plastic your community accepts for recycling. These can be used to produce a variety of items, including other detergent bottles, plastic lumber, fiberfill sleeping bag insulation, and clothing. Twenty-six recycled plastic soda bottles can make one polyester suit.
• If you change your own motor oil, recycle the old oil. One gallon of used motor oil when recycled yields the same amount of refined lubricating oil--2.5 quarts--as is refined from 42 gallons of crude oil (along with other petroleum products). Consider closing the loop by using rerefined motor oil in you car.
• Recycle your dead car battery. The typical car battery contains 18-20 pounds of lead and acid, toxic substances that can cause serious adverse health effects if not disposed of properly. Contact your local government or battery vendor for recycling sites.