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Using the Recycling Calculator:1. Choose the material you would like to recycle.2. Insert the amount of recyclable materials or units in the respe3. Press enter.

4. The product of energy saved through recycling automaticallyenergy used.5. The recycling rate states the current amount of recycled matethe United States.6. Please click on the Fact button for additional information.

Software Requirements:* In order to use this calculator MS Office Excel 2003(Office 200required.* Windows XP SP2 or Above or Macintosh OS X 10.5 or above.


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Material Unit

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Aluminum Lbs. 34 Cans =1 Lbs. 0.000 BTU 3025.000

Anti-freeze (EG) Gal. 1 Lbs. 0.000 heat value in liters of oil 3.500

Cardboard Lbs. 1 Lbs. 0.000 million BTU 6.600

Concrete Lbs. Lbs. 0.000 Mega Joules 0.405

Copper Lbs. Lbs. 0.000 million BTU 42.410

Fly ash Lbs. 1 Lbs. 0.000 million tons of CO2 10.900

Glass Lbs. 1 Bottle 0.000 BTU 2155.000

Lumber Lbs. 1 Lbs. 0.000 ton of CO2 0.010

Rubber/Tire Lbs. 1 Lbs. 0.000 Gal. oil (35 for new tire) 20.833

Oil Gal. 1 Gallon 0.000 grams of CO2 2.421

Used oil filters Lbs. 1 Filter 0.000 0.000

Vehicle battery Lbs. 1 Battery 0.000 0.000

Paper Lbs. 1 Lbs 0.000 Lbs. of CO2 0.341

Plastic Lbs. 1 Bottle 0.000 BTU 2013.000

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NRMCA's Recycling Calculator Information Prepared by Maria S.A. Cruz

Recycling one aluminum can produces enough energy to watch television for three hours.

Ethylene glycol is produced from natural gas which is a non-renewable resource.

For every 1 ton of cardboard that we recycle we can save 9 cubic yards of landfill space.

Estimations state that at least 80 % of copper that was ever mined is still in existence.

Glass can be recycled a indefinite number of times and never wears out.

The US consumes 33 percent of the worlds timber and paper.

The production of one pound of recycled rubber vs. one pound of new rubber requires only 29 % of ener

Motor oil never wears out, it just gets dirty. Oil can be recycled, re-refined and used again, reducing our reliance o

Recycling saves resources because recovered plastic and metals can be used to make new batteries.

To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.

The plastic recycling industry provides jobs for more that 52,000 American workers.

One ton of recycled steel saves 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,400 pounds of coal and 120 pound of limest

1) The oil in used filters can be drain out and the remaining materials can be recycled as scrap metal.

As a nearly inert material, concrete is an ideal medium for recycling waste or industrial byproducts. Many materials thlandfills can be used instead to make concrete.

Fly ash utilization, especially in concrete, has significant environmental benefits including: (1) increasing the life of costructures by improving concrete durability, (2) net reduction in energy use and greenhouse gas and other adverse air emiused to replace or displace manufactured cement, (3) reduction in amount of coal combustion products that must be disp

(4) conservation of other natural resources and materials.

Recycling all the filters sold annually in the United States would result in the recovery of about 160,000 tons of steel, or e16 new stadiums the size of Atlanta's Turner Stadium


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Retrieved from http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/usedoil/facts.htm.Cardboard recycling. (2010). Facts. Retrieved from http://cardboardrecycling.org/.Chan, A. (2005). Ethylene Glycol antifreeze. Retrieved from

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