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Interesting Facts about Ecology

Interesting facts about Ecology:

  • 1/3 of all water is used to flush the toilet
  • 5 billion aluminum cans are used each year
  • Most families throw away about 88 pounds of plastic every year
  • 14 billion pounds of trash are dumped into the ocean every year
  • Each gallon of fuel used releases 20 pounds of carbon dioxide into the air
  • The amount of wood and paper we throw away is enough to heat 50 million homes for 20 years.
  • One gallon of motor oil can contaminate up to 2 million gallons of water if not disposed of properly
  • Only 1% of our water supply is useable
  • In our homes we use approximately 500 gallons of water per day. (150 gallons is used before breakfast.) Switzerland only uses 77 gallons per person per day.
  • Each can of soda takes 29,000 gallons of water to produce
  • Each newspaper takes 66,000 gallons of water to produce
  • If everyone in the United States flushed one less time per day, we could save a lakeful of water every day. (One mile long X one mile wide X four feet deep)
  • It takes plastic and aluminum cans 500 years to break down
  • Organic materials such as cotton and paper take only 6 months to break down
  • Since Earth Day first began in 1970, Americans have wasted approximately one trillion cans.
  • Laid end-to-end, the can wasted in 2001 (50.7 billion) would encircle the Earth 153 times.
  • Recycling used cans into new cans take one third as much energy as making new ones.
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