Since the Oneida-Herkimer Recycling Center opened in 1991, we have recycled the following quantities of recyclable materials:

1. Newspaper - 278,334 tons, 556 million pounds. The pile of newspaper would be 4,217 miles high (a 4 foot pile weighs 100 lbs.). That would stretch from Utica to San Francisco, California and back to Denver, Colorado. One ton of newspaper saves 20 trees; we have saved 5,566,680 trees.
2. Corrugated Cardboard - 140,056 tons. That would fill 66,717 ten-wheel dump trucks with 934,033 cubic yards. Bumper to bumper they would stretch nearly 379 miles.
3. Glass Containers - 39,559 tons. That would be the equivalent to the weight of 123 Statues of Liberty (322 tons).
4. Plastic Containers - 23,440 tons (10 barrels oil/ton). Saved 234,490 barrels of oil or 11,724,500 gallons of oil.
5. Metal Cans - 34,192 tons (1.5 tons/car). That would produce approximately 22,795 economy size cars.
6. Mixed Office Paper - 11,100 tons (1.0 lb. per employee). That is one day's worth of paper for 22,200,540 employees.