Hart County Solid Waste

• Recycling one ton of paper saves three cubic yards of landfill space

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• If every American household recycled just one milk jug, we'd keep 200 million pounds of plastic out of the landfill.

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• Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV set for three hours.

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• Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates 12 jobs. Landfilling the same amount creates 6 jobs while recycling the same 10,000 tons creates 36 jobs.