families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save over 2.5 BILLION bags a year.
-On the average, the 140 million cars in America are estimated to travel almost 4 billion miles in a day, and according to the Department of Transportation, they use over 200 million gallons of gasoline doing it.
-Every year we throw away 24 million tons of leaves and grass. Leaves alone account for 75% of o
ur solid waste in the fall.
-Every ton of recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oil.
-About 1% of U.S. landfill space is full of disposable diapers, which take 500 years to decompose.
-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.
-Glass produced from recycled glass instead of raw materials reduces related air pollution by 20%, and water pollution by 50%.
-Americans use 50 million tons of paper annually -- consuming more than 850 million trees.
-Homeowners use up to 10 times more toxic chemicals per acre than farmers.
