- When you visit a pharmacist, one in every four purchases will have come from a tropical forest.
- Energy saved from one recycled aluminum can will operate a TV set for 3 hours, and is equivalent to half a can of gasoline.
- In 2 weeks, Americans throw enough glass bottles and jars out to fill up what were the Twin Towers in New York City.
- Paper cups consume trees, water, and chemicals, and dump them into streams and landfills- they are not recyclable. Don't leave home without a reusable mug.
- One ton of carbon dioxide that is released in the air can be
 prevented by replacing every 75 watt light bulb with energy efficient bulbs.
- A full bus carrying 60 people removes about 40 cars from the road, saving 100,000 Litres of fuel and 18 tonnes of air pollution per year.
- Homeowners use up to 10 times more toxic chemicals per acre than farmers
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- If just 25 % of US families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save using over 2.5 Billion bags a year.
- Seventy-three different kinds of pesticides have been found in groundwater, which is potential drinking water.
- 15% of Canadian Energy use goes to heating our homes- mainly from non-renewable sources
- It take several thousand years for a computer monitor to decompose in a landfill.
- Every year some 45,000 tons of plastic waste are dumped into the world's oceans. One of the results of this is that up to one million seabirds and one hundred thousand marine mammals are killed each year by plastic trash such as fishing gear, six-pack yokes, sandwich bags, and Styrofoam cups.
- 30% of our water is wasted through leakage.
- North Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
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