
(Some random facts about recycling that you might not yet know about recycling and why it's so a FAB-U-LOUS thing to do)
…About 40% of all the pure water in your house is flushed down the toilet.
…One aluminum can when recycled, can produce enough energy to run a TV set for three hours. That’s one Ugly Betty and two Grey’s Anatomys!
...Reusing a grocery bag for a shopping trip can save about 60,000 trees.
…Every day, more than 20,000,000 Hershey’s Kisses are wrapped. This involves 133 square miles of tinfoil, all of which is recyclable.
…If you walk a mile along the average highway in the United States you will see approximately 1457 pieces of litter.
…Each week’s Sunday paper is responsible for the loss of 500,000 trees.
…Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute!
That’s one hundred acres every sixty seconds!
…Americans use more than 67 million tons of paper per year--about 580 pounds per person.
Gooodness! That’s enough to make my head spin!
Please please please recycle.
Save your planet. It’ll thank you later :)
Sources: Recycling Revolution, Buzzle.com, Resourceful Schools
5 comments:
Wow - those are some incredible stats. You sure know how to keep recycling on my mind!
Wow 40% of our pure water is flushed!! I just found out that you can send in your target bags and they will in turn send you a target tote bag to use while shopping. How is that? Very cool. I am going to send mine in.
G2G...Posh
thanks for the comment posh it was one of my fave pics ;)
Oh my goodness. That Hershey's Kisses fact is ridiculous, just think what it is for those Dove chocolates..
peace&love
nicole.
I believe that stat about the litter on the highways, it is amazing to me that people still litter.
L8R...Deko
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