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   The most easily recycled metal. (Fact: Recycling one product made from this material saves enough energy to light one 100 watt light bulb for 20 hours.)

2. The three R’s.
3. Often recycled at your local gas station. (Fact: One gallon of this product can generate enough energy to meet the electricity needs of your home for half a day!)
4. Takes hundreds of years to decompose. (Fact: 30% of total this product's output is used for packaging.)
5. One quart of this can pollute up to 250,000 gallons of water. (Fact: Americans discard more than 350 million gallons of this product annually. If this oil were recovered and refined, we would reduce petroleum imports by 25.5 million barrels annually.)
6. This item takes up 40% of our landfills. (Fact: It takes 75,000 trees to print a whole Sunday edition of the New York Times.)
7. The slogan for the program that promotes mulching grass. (Fact: To create a self-mulching lawn, wait to mow until your grass is 2-4 inches high, then mow off only the top 1/3 of the grass and don’t rake up the clippings but leave them on your lawn. This way, the clippings will feed your soil and won’t smother your grass!)
8. The biological process that breaks down yard waste into a rich organic product. ( Fact: You need both carbon –"browns" such as dead leaves, limbs, and brush- and nitrogen –"greens" such as grass, trimmings, or raw fruit or vegetable waste for composting to work. The best ratio for backyard composting is 2 to 3 parts browns (carbon) to 1 part greens (nitrogen).
9. Two items that are considered to be yard waste. (Fact: Each household typically produces 300 pounds of green trimmings and brush, 200 pounds of leaves, and 1000 pounds of grass clippings annually.)
10. Even broken, this sandy item can be recycled. (Fact: Glass never wears out, it can be recycled forever)
11. This recycled product can be made into carpet or park benches. (Fact: Every year we make enough of this product to shrink wrap the state of Texas!)
12. Leaving this material on the lawn all summer is equivalent to one application of fertilizer. (Fact: Yard waste accounts for nearly 18% of all municipal solid waste.)
13. One of the organisms that make composting work. (Fact: Using compost returns organic matter to the soil and may reduce the need for chemical fertilizers.)
14. One waste item you don’t want in your compost pile. (Fact: Using these products in composting can cause odors and attract rodents.)
15. This composting process is wormy. (Fact: Worm castings – the end product of worm composting-is the most fertile compost!)
16. Chasing arrows, or arrows in a circle printed on a product. (Fact: Americans generate enough trash on an annual basis to fill a hole the size of a football field 100 miles deep.)
17. Two common curb-side recyclables. (Fact: Every year we fill enough garbage trucks to form a line that would stretch from the earth to the moon!)
18. Riding a bicycle twice.
19. Two household hazardous waste items that can be recycled.
20. 60% of the world’s lead supply come from this item.
21. Let your fingers do the walking to recycle these. (Fact: If everyone in the U.S. recycled one-tenth of their newsprint, we would save the estimated equivalent of approximately 25 million trees per year.)