Recycling at Furman!

Ever wonder what you can put in those recycling bins? 

I know I've been confused about what Furman does and does not recycle!

Here's some helpful tips about what Furman will take care of!

Aluminum cans

Plastic #1 and #2 bottles and jugs

Paper

Cardboard

Wouldn't it be great if every time you recycled this happened?

Why Recycle? 

• 544,000: Trees saved if every household in the United States replaced just one roll of virgin fiber paper towels (70 sheets) with 100 percent recycled ones.
• 20 million: Tons of electronic waste thrown away each year. One ton of scrap from discarded computers contains more gold than can be produced from 17 tons of gold ore.
• 9 cubic yards: Amount of landfill space saved by recycling one ton of cardboard.
• $160 billion: Value of the global recycling industry that employs over 1.5 million people.
• 79 million tons: Amount of waste material diverted away from disposal in 2005 through recycling and composting.
• 5 percent: Fraction of the energy it takes to recycle aluminum versus mining and refining new aluminum.
• 315 kg: Amount of carbon dioxide not released into the atmosphere each time a metric ton of glass is used to create new glass products.
• 98 percent: Percentage of glass bottles in Denmark that are refillable. 98 percent of those are returned by consumers for reuse.
• 51.5 percent: Percentage of the paper consumed in the U.S. that was recovered for recycling in 2005.

Source: http://www.treehugger.com/htgg/how-to-go-green-recycling.html#numbers