REGARDING TO GLOBAL WARMING
1.If one million people recycled their metal, glass, and newspaper, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 211,000 tons
2.If one million passengers skipped one five-hour flight, one million tons of carbon dioxide would be eliminated
3.On million commuters waste about 47 million hours per year because of traffic.
4.If one million people traveled by train instead of car, we’d eliminate 1.2 million tons of carbon dioxide per year
5.If one million Americans reduced their emissions by 10% we’d eliminated 750,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year
6.One million calories of food require three million calories of fossil energy to produce
7.One million tires require 7 million gallons of gas to produce
8.If one million Americans used rain barrels, they could collect enough water for the daily usage of about one million others
9.If one million households halved their phantom power load, we’d eliminate 150,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year
10.If one million households changed four light bulbs (to fluorescent) each, 900,000 tons of greenhouse gases would be eliminated.
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Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.
Marine trash is killing more than a million seabirds and 100,000 mammals and sea turtles each year, said U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in a statement last 2004 World Environment Day.
A sturdy, reusable bag needs only be used 11 times to have a lower environmental impact than using 11 disposable plastic bags.
Cigarette litter lingers in our environment up to 25 years.
Each year, Americans produce enough plastic foam cups to circle the earth more than 400 times. Plastic foam can stay in the environment for up to 500 years.
Plastic bottles go to landfills and take 700 years before they start to decompose.
Every Sunday 500,000 trees could be saved if everyone recycled their newspapers.
Recycling 35 percent of our trash reduces emissions equivalent to taking 36 million cars off the road.
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