Since the Oneida-Herkimer Recycling Center opened in 1991, we have recycled the following quantities of recyclable materials:
- Newspaper - 249,942 tons - 500 million pounds. The pile of newspaper would be 3,787 miles high (a 4 foot pile weighs 100 lbs.). That would stretch from Utica to San Francisco, California and back to Denver, Colorado. One ton of newspaper saves 20 trees; we have saved 4,719,960 trees.
- Corrugated Cardboard - 124,935 tons. That would fill 59,493 ten-wheel dump trucks with 832,903 cubic yards. Bumper to bumper they would stretch nearly 338 miles.
- Glass Containers - 36,050 tons. That would be the equivalent to the weight of 112 Statues of Liberty (322 tons).
- Plastic Containers - 20,574 tons (10 barrels oil/ton). Saved 205,740 barrels of oil or 10,287,000 gallons of oil.
- Metal Cans - 31,857 tons (1.5 tons/car). That would produce approximately 21,239 economy size cars.
- Mixed Office Paper - 10,573 tons (1.0 lb. per employee). That is one day's worth of paper for 21,144,620 employees.
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