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Saturday, December 13, 2008
Interesting Facts!
Aluminum cans will take 80-100 years to decompose in nature if not recycled.
Glass will never wear out.
1/3 of household trash is product packaging.
Glass bottles in a landfill will take over 1 million years to decompose!
Each year, 100 million trees are used to produce junk mail.
250,000 homes could be heated with one days supply of junk mail.
Americans recieve almost 4 million tons of junk mail each year.
Americans go through 2.5 MILLION plastic bottles PER HOUR! Thats alot of plastic!
Dishwashers use less water than hand washing dishes by almost 5 gallons of water!
58% of US newspapers are recycled
Glass will never wear out.
1/3 of household trash is product packaging.
Glass bottles in a landfill will take over 1 million years to decompose!
Each year, 100 million trees are used to produce junk mail.
250,000 homes could be heated with one days supply of junk mail.
Americans recieve almost 4 million tons of junk mail each year.
Americans go through 2.5 MILLION plastic bottles PER HOUR! Thats alot of plastic!
Dishwashers use less water than hand washing dishes by almost 5 gallons of water!
58% of US newspapers are recycled
posted by greenroomblueplanet # 4:59 PM 
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