Did you know that - Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours.
- During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.
- An aluminum can may be recycled ad infinitum .
- We consume over 80 trillion aluminum cans every year.
- The worldâ??s tallest tree is a coast redwood in California, measuring more than 360 feet or 110 meters.
- The worldâ??s oldest trees are 4,600 year old Bristlecone pines in the USA.
- Every day, American businesses generate enough paper to circle the earth 20 times!
- Each year, Americans throw away 25 trillion Styrofoam cups.
- Only 1% of the worldâ??s water supply is usable, 97% are the oceans and 2% is frozen (for now).
- Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots (just checking that youâ??re still paying attention!).
- Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees (Iâ??m guessing itâ??s about the same for more major papersâ?? Sunday editions).
- On average, ONE supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags per year!
- An automatic dishwasher uses less hot water than doing dishes by handâ??an average of six gallons less per cycle, or over 2,000 gallons per year.
- The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
- Every time you open the refrigerator door, up to 30 percent of the cold air can escape.
- Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour, most of which are thrown away!
- Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year.
- A modern glass bottle takes 4000 years or more to decompose.
- About one-third of an average landfill is made up of packaging material.
- The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world's people generate 40% of the world's waste. We toss out two billion plastic razors, a million and a half tons of paper towels, and 12 billion disposable diapers annually.
- More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of tinfoil. All that foil is recyclable .
- Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute.
- If you walk a mile along an average US highway, you will see, on average about 1,457 pieces of litter
- Consumer Reports tested disposable mops and found that they can cost $115+ a year, compared with $50 for a traditional sponge mop with replacement heads and cleanser
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV
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7 Comments
Hello arushi
I hope you are doing well
So true to the fact
Thank you so much for this report
Green cheers
Regards
Asmita Gaire
Posted 19-05-2020 11:12
Thank you for sharing.
Posted 23-12-2013 17:16
Thanks for sharing.
Posted 22-12-2013 18:30
Thanks for sharing.
Posted 16-12-2013 16:13
Thanks for sharing..!
Posted 03-12-2013 20:38
Thanks for sharing :D
Posted 19-08-2013 10:51
Very True, Arushi
Posted 17-08-2013 21:04