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Green Facts
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Shaving 10 miles off of your weekly driving pattern can eliminate about 500 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year.
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Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute.
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For every 38,000 bills consumers pay online instead of by mail, 5,058 pounds of greenhouse gases are avoided and two tons of trees are preserved.
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American workers spend an average of 47 hours per year commuting through rush hour traffic. This adds up to 23 billion gallons of gas wasted in traffic each year.
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Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year.
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In the United States, automobiles produce over 20 percent of total carbon emissions. Walk or bike and you'll save one pound of carbon for every mile you travel.
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Washing your clothes in cold or warm instead of hot water saves 500 pounds of carbon dioxide a year, and drying your clothes on a clothesline six months out of the year would save another 700 pounds.
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Less than 1% of electricity in the United States is generated from solar power.
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Turning off the tap when brushing your teeth can save as much as 10 gallons a day per person.
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One recycled aluminum can will save enough energy to run a 100-watt bulb for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours, or a TV for 2 hours.
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Glass can be recycled over and over again without ever wearing down.
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Americans throw away more than 120 million cell phones each year, which contribute 60,000 tons of waste to landfills annually.
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A steel mill using recycled scrap reduces related water pollution, air pollution, and mining wastes by about 70%.
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Recycling for one year at Stanford University saved the equivalent of 33,913 trees and the need for 636 tons of iron ore, coal, and limestone.
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77% of people who commute to work by car drive alone.
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Recycling 1 million laptop computers can save the amount of energy used by 3,657 homes in the U.S. over the course of a year.
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An aluminum can that is thrown away instead of recycled will still be a can 500 years from now!
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Americans use 100 million tin and steel cans every day.
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Nudge your thermostat up two degrees in the summer and down two degrees in the winter to prevent 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere.
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Bamboo absorbs 35% more carbon dioxide than equivalent stands of trees.
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A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water.
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You’ll save two pounds of carbon for every 20 glass bottles that you recycle.
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Refrigerators built in 1975 used 4 times more energy than current models.
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Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial fleet of airplanes every 3 months
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Recycling 100 million cell phones can save enough energy to power 18,500 homes in the U.S. for a year.
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Every week about 20 species of plants and animals become extinct.
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The World Health Organization estimates that 2 million people die prematurely worldwide every year due to air pollution.
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You will save 100 pounds of carbon for each incandescent bulb that you replace with a compact fluorescent bulb (CFL), over the life of the bulb.
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It takes 6,000,000 trees to make 1 year's worth of tissues for the world.
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A laptop consumes five times less electricity than a desktop computer.
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If every U.S. household turned the thermostat down by 10 degrees for seven hours each night during the cold months, and seven hours each weekday, it would prevent nearly gas emissions.
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A tree that provides a home with shade from the sun can reduce the energy required to run the air conditioner and save an additional 200 to 2,000 pounds of carbon over its lifetime.
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States with bottle deposit laws have 35-40% less litter by volume.
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82 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from burning fossil fuels.
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Current sea ice levels are at least 47% lower than they were in 1979.
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You will save 300 pounds of carbon dioxide for every 10,000 miles you drive if you always keep your car’s tires fully inflated.
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Due to tiger poaching, habitat destruction, and other human-tiger conflicts, tigers now number around 3,200—a decrease in population by about 70% from 100 years ago.
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In California homes, about 10% of energy usage is related to TVs, DVRs, cable and satellite boxes, and DVD players.
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Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy used to make the material from scratch.




