To Know about Environment

Some interesting facts about the Environment

1. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours.

2. During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.

3. We consume over 80 trillion aluminum cans every year.

4. The world tallest tree is a coast redwood in California, measuring more than 360 feet or 110 meters.

5. The world oldest trees are 4,600 year old Bristlecone pines in the USA.

6. Every day, American businesses generate enough paper to circle the earth 20 times!

7. On average, ONE supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags per year!

8. The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.

9. Every time you open the refrigerator door, up to 30 percent of the cold air can escape.

10. Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour, most of which are thrown away!

11. Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year.

12. A modern glass bottle takes 4000 years or more to decompose.

13. About one-third of an average landfill is made up of packaging material.

14. The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world's people generate 40% of the world's waste. We toss out two billion plastic razors, a million and a half tons of paper towels, and 12 billion disposable diapers annually

15. Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute.

16. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV

(Source:http://earthecho.org/news/did_you_know_some_interesting_facts_about_the_environment)