Secure Data Recycling specialises in the recycling and re-use of old electronic and electrical equipment, specifically within the obsolete Computer, PC and Tablet market place.

But that doesn’t mean we are not involved or interested in the whole recycling issue!

So for a little bit of fun we invite you to help us dig out as much recycling trivia as possible, the list below was provided by the US Air Force for Earth day on 18th April 2015.

For example

• Recycling just 48 cans is the energy equivalent of conserving one gallon of gas
• Since 1990, the paper recovered through U.S. recycling efforts would fill 200 football stadiums to a height of 100 feet
• The most recycled consumer product in America is the automobile, with 26 cars being recycled every minute
• Every ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees and 462 gallons of oil
• One pound of newspaper can be recycled into 6 cereal boxes or egg cartons
• In the U.S., we toss more than 100 million cell phones in the trash every year
• EPA reports that over 112,000 computers are discarded every single day, in the U.S. alone. That’s 41.1 million desktops and laptop computers per year!
• Only 30% of electronic waste is disposed of and recycled properly
• Recycling just one aluminium beverage can saves enough energy to run a 100-watt bulb for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours or a TV for 2 hours
• Recycling 125 aluminium cans saves enough energy to power one home for a day
• If everyone in the U.S. was able to reduce their 10.8 pieces of junk mail received each week, we could save nearly 100 million trees each year.
• If every household in the U.S. replaced one roll of non-recycled paper towels with a roll of 100% recycled paper towels, we would save 864,000 trees and 3.4 million cubic feet of landfill space.
• If 10,000 people switched from zero to 100% post-consumer recycled office paper for a year, the collective annual impact is equivalent to taking 230 cars off the road for a year
• A typical disposable lunch, with items like single-serve yogurt, Ziploc bags and juice boxes, creates 4 to 8 oz. of garbage every day. In a year, this could generate up to 67 pounds of waste!
• Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, Americans throw away one million extra tons of garbage every week
• The average U.S. citizen uses 200 pounds of plastic per year and only 3% is recycled. Glass makes up 6% of all the items in a landfill and it takes over 1 million years to decompose
• An average of 220 tons of computers and other e-waste is dumped annually

Now it’s your turn, contact us with your recycling trivia…..