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One ton of carbon dioxide that is released in the air can be prevented by replacing every 75 watt light bulbs with energy efficient bulbs.
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Every day 50 to 100 species of plants and animals become extinct as their habitat and human influences destroy them.
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Homeowners use up to 10 times more toxic chemicals per acre than farmers.
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Energy saved from one recycled aluminum can will operate a TV set for 3 hours, and is the equivalent to half a can of gasoline
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Glass produced from recycled glass instead of raw materials reduces related air pollution by 20%, and water pollution by 50%.
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100,000 marine mammals die each year from eating or becoming entangled in plastic debris.
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Rainforest are destroyed at the rate of about 100 acres per minute
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In the last 50 years, more than 75,000 chemicals have been developed and introduced into the environment.
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90% of the cancer-causing chemicals are air pollution.
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Running in polluted air for half an hour is equivalent to inhaling the carbon monoxide in a pack of cigarettes.
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The average car pumps its own weight in CO2 into the atmosphere every year.
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If you lined up all the Styrofoam cups made in just one day, they would circle the entire planet.
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Recycling waste materials supports about six times as many waste-related jobs as there would be if the same materials were treated as trash.
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The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will keep a light bulb burning for 4 hours.
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If you throw away an aluminum can, it wastes as much energy as if you filled that can half full of petrol and poured it on the ground.
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Recycling one aluminum can saves enough electricity to power a TV or a 100-watt light bulb for three hours.
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An aluminium can will litter the Earth for 500 years.
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Making a can from recycled aluminum uses 90% less energy than making a can from scratch and cuts related air pollution by 95%.
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PET (polyethylene terephthalate, recycling code #1)soda bottles are the most recycled plastic containers.
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Recycling half the world’s paper would free 20 million acres of forestland.
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You would make only 700 paper bags out of a 15-year old tree. In a big supermarket they could be used in less than an hour!
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The production of a ton of paper requires 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water and more energy per ton than glass or steel. It's enough energy to heat a home for 6 months.
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One mature tree absorbs about 50 lb of CO2 each year.
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