earth day
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Americans use 50 million tons of paper annually consuming more than 850 million trees.
Madison Levine
One-half of our nation's lakes and one-third of our rivers are too polluted to be completely safe for swimming or fishing.
By: Sylvie Sontheimer!
Chris Morgan
• An acre of forest is lost
every second.
Did You Know…Every ton of recycled office paper saves
380 gallons of oil.
Chris Morgan
By: Rachel Ebio
Each person throws away
approximately four pounds of
garbage every day.
CFL BULBS
What uses 75% less energy than other bulbs… Lasts 10 times longer?
Compact fluorescent light bulbs
Earth Day Facts
By: Jasmine Jackson
If just 25% of U.S. families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save over 2.5 billion bags a year.
For every ton of paper recycled you can save 17 trees.
We throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild an entire fleet of planes.
One county saves ½ million trees each year by recycling.
If we recycled all of the newspapers printed in the U.S. on a typical Sunday, we would save 550,000 trees.
About 20% of CO2 emissions in the United States come from cars
Did you
know
that
Earth
day was
founded
by U.S.
Senator
Gaylord
Nelson?
Earth Day 2009
Burning oil and other fossil fuels will release 70 million tons of carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere, slowly the planet's temperature will rise.
John Allen Bagby
So you think Earth Day is stupid?
• Well we don’t because our earth is where we live and grow food on. We need to keep our earth clean and KEEP IT CLEAN!!!!!
• By: Travis Petrey