Since opening its doors in 2007, the ReStore has diverted more than 3 million pounds (or 15,000 tons) of potential landfill waste which is equivalent to...
= Eliminating the use of 15,000 garbage trucks
= Diverting 14,600 US residents' annual waste
= Towns the size of Provincetown, MA, St. Augustine, FL or Los Alamos, NM not creating any garbage for a entire year
= Recycling 90,000 feet of stacked newspaper - enough to circle the earth 3.6 times
= Repurposing 3,000,000 pounds of cardboard
= Saving 255,000 mature trees
Sources: Smithsonian Institute, EPA, Recycle.org