Follow in Sasquatch's Footsteps
And leave nothing but tracks!
We have to do our part to help the environment. Let's all be members of the earth's green team and look for ways to reduce our impact.
Here are 20 good reasons why we need to reuse, recycle, and reduce.
What's Good
We have to do our part to help the environment. Let's all be members of the earth's green team and look for ways to reduce our impact.
Here are 20 good reasons why we need to reuse, recycle, and reduce.
What's Good
- One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.
- Each one million of pages of paper not printed saves 85 pulp trees.
- Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees.
- Glass never wears out - it can be recycled forever.
- The energy saved from recycling a glass bottle will light a 100-watt bulb for four hours.
- Recycling a ton of paper saves 7,000 gallons of water, 380 gallons of oil, and enough electricity to run power in an average sized house for 6 months.
- Five recycled plastic bottles make enough fiberfill to stuff a ski jacket.
- Making cans from recycled aluminum cuts related air pollution by 95%.
- If everyone turned off their laptops each night,$2.8 billion would be saved each year.
- The energy saved from recycling a glass bottle will light a 100-watt bulb for four hours.
- Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
- It takes 390 gallons of oil to produce a ton of paper.
- Americans comprise about five percent of the world's population, and annually produce 27 percent of the world's garbage.
- It takes a 15-year-old tree to produce 700 grocery bags.
- We create about 4.5 pounds of trash per day.
- Every second, a slice of rainforest the size of a football field is mowed down.
- Americans throw away the equivalent of more than 30 million trees in newsprint each year.
- The United States consumes 30 percent of the world’s paper.
- Plastic may take up to 500 years to decompose.
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In prehistoric times, 60% of the earth's surface was covered by forests - today that amount has been reduced by 30% and is still shrinking.
It takes 390 gallons of oil to produce a ton of paper.
