2009 Recycling Update

As of July 1st, 2009, BilJax has sent over 39,000 lbs of material to Werlor for recycling. That’s 19.5 tons of materials that would have otherwise ended up in the landfill. If it’s difficult to wrap your mind around the impact of 39,000 lbs, let us help you put it into perspective.

• 5,318 lbs of paper and 23,058 lbs of cardboard require about 241 trees to produce.
• 340 lbs of aluminum is appoximately 11,631 empty 12oz soda cans.
• Recycling 4,738 lbs of plastic saves about 39 barrels of oil. It is also equal, in weight, to 77,355 empty 20oz Coke bottles.
• 5,565 lbs of  recycled glass saves over 3 tons of raw material used to make the glass, such as sand, soda ash, limestone, and feldspar. Additional energy is saved in the melting process, as the raw materials must be heated to a higher temperature.
• Cumulatively, these items would have required 163 cubic yards of landfill space.
• Additionally, almost 275,000 lbs of scrap steel, aluminum, and other metals have been recycled so far this year. Almost half is steel, which means we have avoided the need for the 126 tons of iron ore, coal, and limestone necessary to produce an equivalent amount of steel from virgin material. 

Keep on, keepin’ on recyclers.