Reports average that anywhere from a dismal 15% to a roaring 40% of materials are recycled every year. When you consider that on average the amount of landfills are filling up by five pounds per person per day, there is a lot of room for improvement. When you add it all up, the carbon footprint that a household is leaving per year is equal to 48 tons. There are many opportunities to take advantage of Recycling Louisville to reduce those numbers. Whether it is sorting your house garbage into recycling containers, composting your scraps or even reusing simple pieces around your house instead of buying new, you are recycling. Many city jurisdictions have implemented their own recycling programs so that residents have it easy when it comes to throwing out cans, paper and plastic. Composting either in a kitchen compost bin or a backyard bin is a great way to reduce and reuse common kitchen scraps. Next time you think you need a new item in the house, try fixing something you already or re-purposing another item for the same use. Of the 48 tons of CO2 gases that comes from a landfill that a household is responsible for, there is a way to break down where the waste comes from. Transportation with its fuel consumption, air travel, public transportation and the like make up the biggest portion of roughly 15%. Next you have housing gas, electricity, water and waste, construction and indirect energy which makes up the second biggest consumer and waster with approximately 13%. Foods occupy seven percent, goods another six percent and lastly, services such as entertainment, health care, education, office supplies and other miscellaneous items round out the roughly six percent of the remaining waste factors. Focusing on any one...