During 2008 there was a campus-wide Shred-It, recycling drive as part of the relocation of faculty and staff into the new Health and Human Services Building. As a result, CSU saved the equivalent of 123 trees.
For every ton of paper that is recycled, the following is saved: 7,000 gallons of water; 380 gallons of oil; and enough electricity to power an average house for six months.
You can run a TV for six hours on the amount of electricity that is saved by recycling one aluminum can.
By recycling just one glass bottle, you save enough electricity to power a 100-watt bulb for four hours.
In the last five years, the planet has lost 91 million acres of forests.