| 11.25.07 |
U.S. airports and airlines throw away enough aluminum cans each year to build 58 Boeing 747s |
| 11.18.07 |
100 million trees are destroyed every year to produce junk mail. Find out how to get off marketers' lists at www.newdream.org/junkmail |
| 11.11.07 |
For every pound of shrimp caught, at least four pounds of other animals are killed and discarded as 'bycatch' |
| 11.04.07 |
Using an outdoor gas-fired heater for just one hour can waste enough energy to make 400 cups of coffee |
| 10.28.07 |
One in ten of the world's major rivers runs dry before it reaches the sea as water consumption grows |
| 10.21.07 |
Forty percent of household packaging can't be recycled |
| 10.14.07 |
$22.50 is the price of emiiting a tonne of CO2 on the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange |
| 10.07.07 |
It takes 1/3 of a pound of chemicals to grow enough cotton for just one T-shirt
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| 09.30.07 |
19% of the world's electricity is used for lighting |
| 09.23.07 |
Incandescent light bulbs only convert 5% of the energy they use into light |
| 09.16.07 |
The average American generates around 1 million pounds of waste each year |
| 09.09.07 |
Manufacturing aluminum from recycled rather than raw materials requires 20 times (2000%) less energy |
| 09.02.07 |
Paper production is responsible for 11% of the water used in industrial countries |
| 08.26.07 |
25% bottled water is actually tap water |
| 08.19.07 |
Recycling glass saves up to a third of the energy required to make it from virgin materials |
| 08.12.07 |
Cycling rather than driving for a four mile journey keeps 15 lbs of pollutants out of the air we breathe
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| 08.05.07 |
A forest area the size of 20 football fields is destroyed every minute to produce paper |
| 07.29.07 |
In California alone, over 3 million plastic bottles are thrown away and not recycled every day |
| 07.22.07 |
Packaging makes up half of America's residential waste |
| 07.15.07 |
Moving a ton of freight by plane uses 49 times as much energy per kilometer as moving it by ship |
| 07.08.07 |
Americans use twice as much water in the summer as during the rest of the year |
| 07.01.07 |
Enough virgin wooden pallets to frame 300,000 houses are sent to landfill in the US every year |
| 06.24.07 |
More than 80% of waste is generated by less than 20% of the world's population |
| 06.17.07 |
A two minute take-off by a 747 is equal to 2.4 million lawnmowers running for 20 minutes |
| 06.10.07 |
The ten largest beer breweries in the world produce 100 billion throwaway bottles every year |
| 06.03.07 |
Over 320 million take-out cups are purchased…and thrown away…every day in the USA |
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