How much municipal waste is recycled each year?

Answer 1

Household waste:Recyclable:

• All clean paper, newspaper and cardboard
• All clean steel and aluminium cans
• All glass bottles and jars
• Most kinds of clean plastic containers and bottles
• Electronic waste, old TVs, radios, computers, printers

Compostable (or recycled through a worm farm or fed to animals)

• All leaves, small branches and vegetable peelings
• Food scraps (no meat or fish in the compost)

Although just about everything is recyclable, including all plastic, you may find that the recyclers in your area will not take everything! It depends on the facilities they have and how economic the process is for them.

Answer 2

recyclable items includes metals, paper products, plastic, and glass. 50% of metals are recycled, 38% of paper products are recycled, 20% of plastic is recycled, and only 5% of glass is recycled.

Answer 3

Each year, the typical American family throws out 2,460 pounds of paper, 540 pounds of metals, 480 pounds of glass and 480 pounds of food scraps. archie

Answer 4

Less than one percent of plastic bags used each year in the United States is recycled. Only about half of the world's waste is actually recycled.

Answer 5

82 % of people recycle each day

Answer 6

18 pounds a day

Answer 7

no