Ok kids, in celebration of our beautiful planet, I thought I'd share with you some fun & fabulous facts which may come as a shock!
* The garbage in a landfill stays for about 30 years.
* Each person throws away approximately 4 lbs. of garbage every day!?!
*Most families throw away about 88 pounds of plastic every year!
*We each use about 12,000 gallons of water every year
*1/3 of all water is used to flush the toilet.
*Recycling one aluminum can save enough energy to watch a TV for 3 hrs!! - it's equivalent to 1/2 a gallon of gasoline!
*Earth Day was first celebrated on April 22 in 1970, & April 22 is the 1st official day of Spring in the Northern hemisphere & of Fall in the Southern hemisphere, & was chosen to be Earth Day for this reason.
*If every newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year! Can you believe that??
*But unfortunately only 27% of all American newspapers are recycled :(
*More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of tinfoil. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it! Keep this in mind!
*Only 11% of the earth's surface is used to grow food.
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