Each year the United States conservatively speaking buries about 33 million tons of wood related construction and demolition debris in our landfills.  As anaerobic microorganisms decompose this wood, it will release about 5 million tons of carbon equivalents in the form of methane gas.  This is equivalent to the yearly emissions of 3,736,000 passenger cars.

Every ton of wood that is reused avoids the creation of 60 pounds of green house gases that would have been created to harvest and mill new lumber.

The deconstruction of a typical 2,000 square foot wood frame house can yield 6,000 board feet of reusable lumber.  That is equivalent to 33 mature trees, or the yearly output of 10 acres of planted pine.

The average American home(2,000 square feet), if demolished, would produce 10,000 cubic feet of debris.

The 6,000 board feet of lumber that can be recovered and reused from an average single family home contains 23 million BTU's of embodied energy that can be preserved through deconstruction(equivalent to 205 gallions gasoline).

The United States makes up 5% of the worlds population, but contrubutes 50% of the worlds landfill waste.

If trends in consumption continue, the world will need twice the raw materials by 2010 than it did in 2004.