TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO
GO THROUGH YOUR GARBAGE.
We throw away enough
glass bottles and jars to
fill the 1,350-foot twin towers
of New York's World Trade Center
every two weeks.
Etery uvek, more than
900000 trees are used
to produce the two-thirds of newspapers
that are never recycled.
Americans go through
2.5 million plastic bottles
every bour, only a small percentage of
which are now recycled.
ETLONG AN. H
ONNAISE
American consumers and industry
throw away enough aluminum
to rebuild our entire commercial
airfleet every three months.
The ordinary bag of trash you throw
away is slowly becoming a serious prob-
lem for everybody.
Because the fact is, not only are we
running out of resources to make the
products we need, we're running out of
We throw away enough
iron and steel to
continuously supply all
the nation's automakers.
places to put what's left over.
Every year we dispose of
24 million tons of leaves and grass
clippings, which could be composted
to conserve landfill space.
you'll need to know about recycling.
One thing's for certain, the few min-
utes you take to learn how to recycle will
spare us all a lot of garbage later.
Write the Environmental Defense
Fund at: 257 Park Avenue South, New
York, NY 10010, for a free brochure that
will tell you vir- IF YOU'RE NOT RECYCLING
tually everything YOU'RE THROWING IT ALL AWAY. Ad
NEW STREET TRACK
BY TRACKER
JOHN PRYOR SAN JOSE, CA
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