Earth Day Every Day
The green movement has been an interesting journey. Being green has become a way of life for more than just extremists. Global Warming is now recognized as a real issue. People globally are recognizing that being eco-friendly and changing our habits is in everyone’s best interest and are making great progress to integrate that way of life without affecting the livelihoods of the communities.
Anyone that spends a few minutes with me knows my passion for the environment and doing all I can to lessen my carbon footprint on the planet. I love to celebrate Earth Day every day, but today is a great day to highlight all we can do for changing our ways and loving the planet we share!
Each day, I resolve to lighten my load I leave on the planet and assist others in doing the same. I will continue to post a variety of suggestions and tips on this blog and my daily Green Tweets. Mostly small and easy ones, but I will also outline some bigger topics here as well.
Remember that it’s never too late to do our part, and that every little bit counts. Here are a few interesting facts about how those little steps can help:
· the average person in the United States produces about 6.5 pounds of trash every day
· one third of the paper mills in the United States use recycled waste paper exclusively
· every three months, Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild the nation ’s commercial air fleet
· if you throw away two aluminum cans, you would waste more energy than is used daily by each of a billion citizens in poorer countries
· the energy saved from one recycled aluminum can will operate a television for three hours
· it takes 95% less energy to make aluminum from recycled scrap than from virgin materials
· making new paper from recycled paper requires 30-50% less energy than making paper from trees and it reduces contributions to air pollution by 95%
· every ton of recycled office paper saves approximately 380 gallons of oil?
· the energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will light a 100-watt light bulb for four hours?
Please feel free to share some tips as well!
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