What cannot be recycled?

True or false? Always bag or bundle your recyclables.

True or False?

Batteries can be recycled, if disposed of properly.

True or False? On average, each one of us produces 4.5 pounds of solid waste each day. For the entire U.S. population, that adds up to about 262 million tons of trash each year

True or False? For a family of four, the yearly total comes to about 6,500 pounds – nearly the weight of a hippopotamus

True or False?

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to keep a 100-watt bulb burning for almost 4 hours or running your television for 3 hours.

True or False? If all our newspaper was recycled, we would save about 250 million trees each year.

True or False? The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50 million homes for 20 years.

True or False?

In the U.S., we use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. Most of them are thrown away rather than recycled.

True or False?

A single recycled plastic bottle saves enough energy to run a 100-watt bulb for 4 hours.

True or False? We use over 500 million plastic straws every day in the U.S., which would fill over 127 school buses each day or more than 46,400 school buses each year!