design context: Stamp it!

Aluminum:

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours!
350,000 aluminum cans are produced every minute!
More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product.
Once an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part of a new can within six weeks.
During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.
There is no limit to the amount of times aluminum cans can be recycled.
We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum pop cans every year.
At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold?

Paper:

To produce each week's Sunday newspaper, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
During World War II when raw materials were scarce, 33% of all paper was recycled. After the war, this number decreased sharply.
Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year: about 680 pounds per person.
In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space.
In 1993, nearly 36,000,000 tons of paper in the U.S.-twice as much in 1980.
27% of the newspapers produced in America are recycled.

http://www.santarosa.fl.gov/recycle/facts.html

Lightbulb Fun Fact

The energy saving from recycling one plastic bottle can power a 100 watt light bulb for almost an hour.

Glass Bottles Fun Fact

The largest glass furnaces produce more than 400 tonnes - more than 1 million bottles each day!

Television Fun Fact

Just one recycled aluminimum can saves enough energy to run a television for three hours!

15 Bottles

On average each household uses 15 bottles everyday - that's about 275,000 bottles every year!

Aluminium Can

Recycling just one aluminium can saves enough energy to light a 100 watt light bulb for 20 hours!

Daily Newspaper

By recycling your daily newspaper you will have saved more than your own body weight in paper within a year!

Fewer dustbins

If everyone recycled all their aluminium cans there would be 14 million fewer dustbins to be landfilled every year!

Fleece Jacket

It takes just 25 pop bottles to make one fleece jacket!

Green bottles

The average glass bottle contains over 25% recycled glass but green bottles can contain as much as 90% recycled glass!

Lincoln Cathedral

Lincoln Cathedral has an internal volume of 150,000 m3, we generate enough household rubbish in Lincolnshire each year to fill this space 15 times over.

Moon

13 billion steel cans are produced each year in the UK. If you put them together end-to-end they'd stretch to the moon three times!

Every year, an estimated 17½ billion plastic bags are given away by supermarkets. This is equivalent to over 290 bags for every person in the UK. 17½ billion seconds ago it was the year 1449. We produce and use 20 times more plastic today than we did 50 years ago!

Power a computer

The energy saved by recycling one glass bottle will power a computer for 25 minutes!

Powering lightbulbs

The energy saved from recycling just one plastic bottle would power a 60 watt lightbulb for 60 hours!

Power a House

It is estimated that for every tonne of paper recycled approximately 4,200 KWh of electricity are saved - that's enough to power a house in the UK for a whole year!