Tips, Fun Facts and Games

Tips

We have compiled lists of tips on how to go green and stay green as well as some helpful tools to guide you there.

• AT&T On-line Directories - If everyone decreased the amount of phone books, it would save enormous amounts of paper.
• Reduce Junk Mail
• Where to Buy/Sell Recycled or Reused Items Near MSU

• Spring Reuse and Recycling Tips
• Summer Reuse and Recycling Tips
• Tips for Every Season

Fun Facts

• The EPA estimates that 75 percent of what Americans throw in the trash could actually be recycled. Currently, only 25 percent is.
  
  
• Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates one job; landfilling 10,000 tons of waste creates six jobs; recycling 10,000 tons of waste creates 36 jobs.
  
  
• The national recycling rate of 30 percent saves the equivalent of more than five billion gallons of gasoline, reducing dependence on foreign oil by 114 million barrels. This could be even higher!



• According to the EPA, recycling, including composting, diverted 68 million tons of material away from landfills and incinerators in 2001, up from 34 million tons in 1990.



• Every Sunday 500,000 trees could be saved if everyone recycled their newspapers.



• Currently the diversion rate (materials MSU recycles instead of sending to landfill) is 14%. Each cubic yard of trash disposed of costs up to $26. A 10% reduction in the land-filled waste from 2006-07 levels would result in direct savings in landfill fees of about $60,000 and additional savings of up to $40,000 in other variable collection costs.

Games

• Learn how to defeat Energy Hogs
• Kids Recycling Zone
• Interactive Water Cycle
• Be Spartan Green Fun and Games
• EPA Student Center

Fun Fact Information from: Earth 911 and Be Spartan Green