2025 Recycling Impact Report

In 2025, through collecting, sorting, and processing single-stream recyclables at Recycle Ann Arbor's Zero Waste Material Recovery Facility (MRF) our community diverted a record 22,556 tons of materials from ending up in a landfill.

THANK YOU FOR RECYCLING!
Collected, sorted, & processed at the MRF
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22,556
Tons

GHG Emissions Conserved

calculated using the EPA WARM model*

*calculation does not account for all materials collected at Drop Off Station & Recovery Yard

63,948  MT CO2

 
Equal to
 
Conserving the annual GHG emissions from

13,577 cars

OR
Blue gas pump
7.2
million
gallons of gasoline

Energy use conserved

calculated using the EPA WARM model*

*calculation does not account for all materials collected at Drop Off Station & Recovery Yard

Measured in millions of BTUs

Number of households annual energy consumption

3,665

57,794

barrels of oil

 

For more information about how you can reduce, reuse, and recycle to lower GHG emissions.

recycleannarbor.org