Did you know?
- Turning off your computer at night or putting it on sleep mode during the day can reduce energy use by 80%.
- A clothing iron consumes as much power as a 100-watt bulb over the same period of use.
- Recycling a ton of paper can save 380 gallons of oil.
- One leaky faucet means that 13 liters of water are being wasted every day.
- Each year, 1.5 million barrels of oil are used to produce plastic water bottles.
- Paper bags use 4 times as much of the energy to manufacture as plastic bags.
- 60% of magazines at newsstands aren't sold and are hauled off to dumps.
- Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees, 2 barrels of oil, 4,100 kilowatts of energy, 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60 pounds of air pollution.
- Enough glass was thrown away in 1990 to fill the Twin Towers (1,350 feet high) of New York's World Trade Center every two weeks.
- Two quarts of gasoline and 1000 quarts of water are required to produce a quart of Florida orange juice.
- Single-use alkaline batteries contain fewer toxic chemicals than rechargeable batteries.
- If all the empty ink cartridges that are thrown away each year were stacked end to end, they would circle the earth.
- Just one gallon of used oil has the potential to contaminate up to one million gallons of drinking water.
- A mobile phone can contain 500 to 1,000 components. Many of these contain toxic heavy metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium and beryllium, and hazardous chemicals, such as brominated flame retardants, associated with illnesses like cancer.
