7.4 CUBIC YARDS Recycling a ton of PET (clear plastic) bottles saves that much space in landfills. ONE EXTRA LARGE T-SHIRT That's what you can make by recycling 14 20-ounce PET bottles. APPRENTICE, CSI AND THE SIMPSONS You could watch more than two and half hours of television programming with the energy saved from recycling one aluminum can. 34 POUNDS Add up all the PET bottles each California household uses in a year and that's what you get. 90 DAYS That's how long it takes a recycled aluminum can to make it back on the shelf as something useful. 80-100 YEARS That's the lifespan of an aluminum can that gets tossed into a landfill instead of a recycling bin. 700 YEARS Toss a plastic bottle in the trash and that's about how long it will sit in a landfill taking up space and refusing to degrade. 1 MILLION YEARS Put a glass bottle in a landfill and that's how long it'll sit there doing nothing. Recycle it and it can live forever.