- Brought in over 2,050 tons of material for processing and disposal
- Recycled 1,015 tons of that total
- Maintained our 50% recycling landfill diversion rate! Good for you!
- Saved the taxpayers over $47,000 by recycling.
- Swanzey has recycled over 19,900 tons since 1990.
- The United States sent $6.5 billion worth of recyclables to landfills last year.
- Making a new aluminum can from a recycled one takes only 5% of the energy it would take to make a new can from aluminum ore.