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Whether you are a school, religious organization, business or person, there are things that you can do to make a difference for the environment. At Right-Way Recycling, we offer a free paper recycling service to organizations throughout Louisville, Kentucky. In fact, we are willing to pay your organization for your recycling efforts. By placing one of our recycling containers on your property and allowing the surrounding community to utilize the container you will earn money for every ton of paper collected and reduce your trash hauling fees. Right-Way Recycling can provide top loading, locking containers for dock use at Hospitals and Post Offices. If you or your organization does not qualify for our program, you can still take part by supporting one of the local organizations that do participate, please check our locater to find the nearest participating organization.

 


Right-Way Recycling
1821 Commerce Rd.
Louisville, KY 40208
859 760-1024

 




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Here are some facts about paper recycling.

  1. About 80% of what Americans throw away is recyclable, yet our recycling rate is only 28%.

  2. Each year, the United States used 85.5 million tons of paper, of which we recycle 22% or 19 million tons. Of the remaining paper, we could recycle up to 70% or 46 million tons. And those 46 million tons could save 782 million trees.

  3. Every day, Americans buy about 62 million newspapers and throw out around 44 million of them. If we recycled just half our newsprint every year, we would need 3,200 fewer garage trucks to collect our trash.

  4. Americans throw away the equivalent of more than 30 million trees in newsprint each year.

  5. Americans discard 4 million tons of office paper every year. That's enough to build a 12 foot-high wall of paper from New York to California.

  6. Recycling half the world's paper would free 20 million acres of forest land.

  7. Recycling one stack of newspapers about 6 feet tall saves the life of one tree 35 feet tall. Recycling approximately 1 ton of newspaper saves 17 trees.

  8. The EPA has found that making paper from recycled materials results in 74% less air pollution and 35% less water pollution. This means that every ton of recycled paper keeps almost 60 pounds of pollutants out of the atmosphere that would have been produced if the paper had been manufactured from virgin resources.

  9. Every ton of recycled paper saves approximately 4 barrels of oil, 4,200 kilowatt hours of energy and enough energy to heat and air-condition the average North American home for almost 6 months.

  10. For every 15,000 tons of old newspaper recycled annually, 30 jobs are created to collect the paper, 40 jobs are created to process the paper, and 75 jobs are required to manufacture the newsprint.