Planet Erth is NOT a Litterbox. Treet her accordingly.
- Every ton of paper that is recycled saves 17 trees.
- The energy we save when we recycle one glass bottle is enough to light a light bulb for four hours
- Each person throws away approximately four pounds of garbage every day.
- One bus carries as many people as 40 cars!
- More than 1/3 of all energy is used by people at home
- Most families throw away about 88 pounds of plastic every year
- We each use about 12,000 gallons of water every year
- 1/3 of all water is used to flush the toilet.
- The 500 million automobiles on earth burn an average of 2 gallons of fuel a day.
- Each gallon of fuel releases 20 pounds of carbon dioxide into the air.
- Approximately 5 million tons of oil produced in the world each ear ends up in the ocean.
- By 1995 over 200 of the world landfills will be full.
- The amount of wood and paper we throw away is enough to heat 50 million homes for 20 years
- Earth is 2/3 water. but all the fresh water streams only represent one hundredth of one percent.
- 14 billion pounds of trash is dumped into the ocean every year
- It takes 90% less energy to recycle aluminum cans than to make new ones
- 5 billion aluminum cans are used each year
- 84 percent of all household waste can be recycled.
- For every 2000 pounds of paper (1 ton) recycled, we save 7,000 gallons of water free from chemicals.
- Approximately only 10 percent of every landfill can be cleaned up.
- One gallon of motor oil can contaminate up to 2 million gallons of water. so dispose of properly!
- Here is an example of the water peepul use everyday:
* 3-7 gallons for toilet,
* 25-30 gallons for tub,
* 50-70 gallons for a 10 minute shower,
* 1 washing machine load uses 25-40 gallons,
* 1 dishwasher load uses 9-12 gallons - Here is an example of how long it takes some things take to break down:
* plastics take 500 years,
* aluminum cans take 500 years,
* organic materials take 6 months --- cotton, rags, paper take 6 months
* Stryofoam never breaks down
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10 Comments:
Skeezix, thank you for teaching us how to take better care of the earth.
Happy Earth Day Skeezix! Very informative post.
Today is also my humans' third wedding anniversary! :) So we are celebrating that today. :)
Happy Earth Day.
We are going to plant some flowers today.
Skeezix,
Disposable diapers take 500 years to biodegrade too. You are lucky you don't need them.
My Earth Day post is about new flushable diapers. However, on second thought maybe we should just teach our human children to just use a litter box like you!
Oh, mom used cloth (cotton) diapers and when da gerls were howse broken she dusted furnichur wif 'em. Both our bean sisfurs use cloth diapers and mom siz dat styrafoam is a plot to take over da world so she don't effur use it and she only orders take out frum places she knows duzent use it. Mom's a recycling lunatice!
Happy Earth Day Skeezix. Very nice list, hopefully the beans will read it.
Tara
Happy Earth Day! Drive emmission free strollers!
(We're a 2-Prius fambly)
Skeezix, we salute you for bringing this important message to the attention of cats across the world. Happy Earth Day to all!
~J&B
deer skeez,
happee earth day to u an yerz.
thank u fer all da infermashun. mi mom wishez dat mi dad would get a prius ... an mi brudderz k + s hav 2?
luv--yer frend--jh
Happy Earth Day Skeezix. Yesterday I got so excited about voting in the acatamy awards that I completely missed your Earth Day post!
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