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Green Facts - What are you doing to help??

Paper makes up 36% of our solid waste. The burning of paper gives off air pollution, while the recycling of paper cuts our waste load over a third, and saves forests

About 80% of what Americans throw away is recyclable, yet our recycling rate is 28%

Recycling creates 6 times as many jobs as landfilling

If every newspaper printed for just one Sunday edition of the New York Times were to be recycled, we would save 75,000 trees

By recycling all of your newspapers for one year, you alone can save four trees, 2,200 gallons of water, and fifteen pounds of air pollutants

Energy saved for one recycled aluminum can will operate a TV set for 3 hours and is the equivalent to a half a can of gasoline

Switching your light bulbs to CFL’s (compact fluorescent lights) – they last 13 times longer, use 66% less energy, lowering your power bill

If every household replaced 1 light bulb we’d reduce global warming pollution by more than 90 billion pounds over the life of the bulbs, the same as taking 6.3 million cars off the road.

By fixing a leaking toilet you can save over 200 gallons of water a day

Plastic bags and 6-pack holders kill 100,000 marine mammals, and over one million sea birds.

We throw away enough paper each year to heat 50 million homes for 20 years

The U.S. uses nearly $1 million worth of energy every minute

Pollution from cars, factories and power plants is a major cause of asthma attacks.

The National Recycling Coalition reports that recycling supports 1.1 million jobs in the U.S.

Half of the forests that originally covered 48% of the Earth’s land surface are gone. Only 1/5th of the Earth’s original forests remain pristine and undisturbed.

Since 1980, the earth has experienced 19 of its 20 hottest years on record, with 2005 and 1998 tied for the hottest with 2002 and 2003 in second and third.

The polar ice cap is now melting at the alarming rate of 9% per decade.

The removable roof rack on a car can reduce fuel economy by as much as 5%

The refrigerator is the single biggest energy-consuming kitchen appliance, and opening the refrigerator door accounts for $30 and $60 of a family’s typical electricity bill each year.

The average American uses more than 100 gallons of water each day

If every household in the United States replaced just one package of virgin fiber napkins with 100% recycled ones, we could save 1 million trees.

In the average home, 40% of all electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off.