Rubbish
- The disposals that we human throws lasts for approximately 30 years.
- An average of 4 pounds of garbage are thrown everyday by each person.
Energy
- More than 1/3 of all the energy is consumed by people at home.
- About 88 punds of plastic are being disposed by one family per year.
Water
- We consume about 12,000 gallons of water every year.
- 1/3 of all water is being flushed in the toilet.
- An average of 2 gallons of fuel are burnt on earth by 500 million automobiles.
- Each gallon of fuel releases 20 pounds Carbon Dioxide,(CO2) into air.
- About 5 million tons of oil ends in the ocean.
Damages & Recycling Waste
- Recycling a glass bottle can save up energy of lighting up a traditional light bulb for 4 hours
- 7000 gallons of water are free from chemicals by recycling 2000 pounds of paper (1 ton)
- Recycled paper requires 64% less energy than making paper from virgin wood pulp and other trees as well.
- 17 trees can be saved by recycling a ton of papers.
- The amount of woods and papers disposed can heat 50 homes for 20 years.
- Only one hundredth of one percent represents fresh water streams out of 2/3 water on earth.
- Ocean is filled with 14 billion pounds of trash every year.
- Less than 90% of energy is taken up to recycle aluminium cans than to make new ones.
- Each year 5 billion aluminium cans are used.
- 84% of household wastage can be recycled.
- A typical monitor contains 405 pounds of lead.
- 88% of mercury and 54% of cadmium are deposited into landfills by US due to disposals of billions of batteries each year.
- Ivory comes from dead elephants and endangered animals are used to make fur coats often, best not to buy.
- 2 million gallons of water is contaminated by a gallon of motor oil.
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Water Consumption A Day
Toilet --> 3-7 gallons
Tub --> 25-30 gallons
10 minutes of shower --> 50-70 gallons
A washing machine --> 25-40 gallons
A dishwasher --> 9-12 gallons
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Plastic & aluminium cans --> 500 years
Organic materials --> 6 months
Cotton, rags & paper --> 6 months
Author
-Saranya Vaanen-





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