2009 Year-end Recycling Totals-lbs.

BilJax recycled 75,476 lbs or 37.7 tons of material instead of sending it to landfill as municipal solid waste. You can add to that another 4,278 lbs collected during the electronic waste recycling event last October.

Stats:

• 636 lbs of aluminum is equal to about 21,758 individual cans of soda.
• 58,642 lbs of recycled paper and cardboard saves 499 trees.
• 325 cubic feet of landfill space would have been needed to dispose of this material.
• You can also look at the energy equivalents of these materials as 176 barrels of oil.