Recycling: Think about it
- Recycling one glass jar saves enough electricity to light a conventional 50 watt bulb for four hours or an eleven watt compact florescent light bulb for 20 hours. Therefore, if you recycle ten glass jars, that will save enough energy to power a conventional light bulb for 40 hours or a compact florescent light bulb for 200 hours.
- Recycling a stack of newspapers just three feet high will save one tree. Therefore, if you recycle four Sunday papers each month, you will have saved four trees per year.
- Recycling five plastic soda bottles yields enough fiber for one extra large t-shirt, one square foot of carpet or enough fiber fill to fill one ski jacket. Therefore, if you recycle 14 plastic bottles per week, that would be enough fiber to make 145.6 t-shirts per year.
- Recycling a single aluminum can saves enough energy to power a television for three hours. Therefore, if you recycle 12 cans per week, you saved enough energy for 36 hours of television viewing.
As a community in 2008 Montgomery residents recycled:
- 816.71 tons of Newspaper/Cardboard
- 23.4 tons of #1 Plastics
- 25.63 tons of #2 Plastics
- 40.12 tons of Steel Cans
- 21.18 tons of Aluminum
- 119.22 tons of Clear Glass
- 41.21 tons of Brown Glass
- 26.75 tons of Green Glass