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The purpose of Clean Your Files Day is to increase recovery of office paper by purging old files, <br /> and promote workplace recycling by engaging businesses who don't already recycle office paper to <br /> implement a recycling program. This is the 11"'year the City has participated in the event, as part of <br /> the Mayor's Clean City initiative. <br /> Just think of'the reasons to recycle: <br /> • Each of us generates on average 4.4 pounds of waste per day per person. In a lifetime, the average <br /> American will throw away 600 times his or her adult weight in garbage. This means that each adult <br /> will leave a legacy of 90,000 lbs. of trash for his or her children. <br /> • It takes 75,000 trees each week to produce the Sunday edition of the New York Times. <br /> • Everyday Americans buy 62 million newspapers and throw out 44 million. That's the equivalent of <br /> dumping 500,000 trees into a landfill every week. If Americans recycled just one-tenth of their <br /> newspaper, we would save 2.5 million trees a year. <br /> • The average American uses 580 pounds of paper each year. As a nation we consume 850 million <br /> trees annually. <br /> • One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year. <br /> • Every year, Americans throw away enough office and writing paper to build a wall 12 feet high <br /> from New York to Los Angeles. <br /> • One ton of recycled paper uses 64% less energy, 50% less water, 74% less air pollution, saves 17 <br /> trees and creates 5 times more jobs than 1 ton of paper products from virgin wood pulp. <br /> • Recycling a four-foot stack of paper saves a 40-foot pine tree. <br /> Information on implementing a recycling program in your home or work place will be available <br /> at the event. Waste Management, Inc. provides recycling services throughout St. Joseph and Elkhart <br /> Counties. Solid Waste Management District of St. Joseph County manages the county-wide curbside <br /> recycling program. Central Files, Inc. provides document and data management services for companies <br /> throughout northern Indiana and southern Michigan. <br /> - 30 - <br />