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Still significant but it would take seventy five years to make a pile as big as the Great Pyramid. Imagine the savings in fuel for those trucks. You just need to get a SpaCap and tell every other spa owner you know to buy a SpaCap instead of a rigid foam filled spa cover.666 cubic feet of foam per spa cover. 54,286 fewer semi truck trailers on the road per year. If a good size semi truck trailer can haul 2000 cubic feet and you could stuff every nook and cranny with a foam filled spa cover the best you could get would be about 188 covers per semi trailer (Again, these numbers are based on two inch foam.If all those old foam covers were four inches thick we could make it a four lane highway. That means transporting the before mentioned foam filled covers would take around fifty five thousand semi truck trailers. Talk about a savings in transportation cost. Compare this to a mere five thousand to haul the same amount of SpaCap spa covers. Using a spa cover that requires one tenth the energy to keep the water warm. Remember we are using two inch foam covers, if you use a four inch foam cover these numbers double.. We'll say 10.So a stack of wasted foam covers as large as the Great Pyramid every two years or a pile of SpaCap spa covers the same size in seventy five years.This doesn't address the environmental cost of transportation. But let's be conservative and say two inches thick.. Incidentally that same number of truck trailers would be needed to haul those covers to dealers so you could by your next one. Of course if the SpaCap lasts longer that would mean about 714 semi truck trailers per year compared to 55,000 loaded trailers per year of foam covers to cover the same number of spas. Heck with the Energy Star, the Department of Energy will probably want to give me a medal. Personally I would prefer a SpaCap pile that big. If every spa owner in America is using a tapered cover, or a three or four inch cover these figures could easily double).5 cubic feet per cover. There are four and a half million cubic yards of concrete in Hoover Dam. I'd have my picture taken in front of it.If there are two and a half covers worth of foam to make up one cubic yard that translates to 4 million cubic yards of waste added to our land fills every two years just in spa covers. So then if a SpaCap were on every spa in America and every SpaCap lasted seven years (we have some out there that are still in use after ten) we would be creating one point four million cubic feet of waste per year. If each cover on every spa becomes saturated within two years and needs to be replaced that would mean that we would be adding 52. If there are 11 million Cubic yards of stone in the Great Pyramid at Giza, we are adding enough foam to build a duplicate of it to our landfills just from used spa covers every six years conservatively. If it cost $50 per year (I wish) to heat those 10,000,000 spas and the SpaCap saved 90 percent of that by being ten times better than a foam filled cover that would be an energy savings of 450,000,000 dollars per year. In the immortal words of Robin the Boy Wonder, "Holy garbage nightmares, Batman!" Is there any hope out there? Well yes there is actually, and you.