Did You Know?

• If every household reused a paper grocery bag for one shopping trip, about 60,000 trees would be saved.
• Almost four million computer diskettes are thrown away every day, which equals over on and a half billion disks per year or a stack of disks as tall as the Sears Tower in Chicago every 21 seconds. It will take nearly 500 years for the disks to degrade.

(from the Oberlin College Recycling Program)

• There are more than 6,000 reuse centers around the country, ranging from specialized programs for building materials or unneeded materials in schools to local programs such as Goodwill, Salvation Army, and ReUse Industries (ok, we added that one ourselves!) according to the Reuse Development Organization.
• Between 2 and 5 percent of the waste stream is potentially reusable according to local studies in Berkeley, California, and Leverett, Massachusetts.

(from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)