This company recently unveiled the world's first carbon neutral phone, composed primarily of recycled water bottles.

The average person generates this many pounds of trash each day.

A major part of war efforts includes organizing these type of drives so that resources can be recycled as reused.

This US city diverts the most waste from landfills, thanks in part to mandatory composting and recycling laws.

Alaska has this many landfill facilities, while the entire northeastern region of the US has 134.

Made from rice hulls, mushroom fibers and recycled paper, this material can repel water, prevent fire, and is resistant to temperature change.

In 2009, Americans produced enough trash to circle the earth this many times.

Thirty years ago it was common for this product to be purchased in glass bottles, which were left on the door step to be reused when empty.

Out of 10 San Franciscans, this many insist they know everything there is to know "about what goes where," according to a study by the city's Department of Environment.

In this decade the manufacture of plastics from chemicals produced from petroleum begins.

This Australia-based company built a facility in Sydney that combines every trash-sorting technology imaginable - wind sifters, optical scanners, magnets, electrical currents.

In 2009, Americans threw away this many tons of glass.

In what year were the first first recorded landfill sites created?

This material is the most misunderstood, according to the Department of the Environment.

These 5 cities have banned Styrofoam foodware.

The textbook-sized kit that can convert urine into drinkable water will accompany NASA's last space shuttle mission is called this.

The world generates 21.5 million tons of food waste each year. If this food was composted, it would reduce the same amount of greenhouse gas as taking this many cars off the road.

'Toshers' of the 1800's made a smelly but lucrative living by doing this.

Greasy pizza boxes should be put in this bin.

Doubling the national recycling rate could create this many new green jobs.

One gallon of oil, when reprocessed, can generate enough energy to meet the electricity needs of this many people for an entire day.

Americans throw away this many plastic bottles every hour.

In this year the first incineration plant built in Nottingham, burning mixed fuel to produce steam and generate electricity.

The city of San Francisco determined that it cost them this much to handle each disregarded bag.

Every ton of glass containers recycled saves this amount of natural resources.