LIFun4Kids.com Green Facts
| Fact 1) Plastic bags create four times more solid waste than paper bags each year...enough to fill the Empire State Building two and a half times!! |
| Fact 2) It can take up to 1000 years for a plastic bag to break down in the environment. (YES, I said ONE THOUSAND YEARS!!) |
| Fact 3) To make all the bags we use each year, it takes 14 million trees for paper and 12 million barrels of oil for plastic. |
| Fact 4) The average family of four uses almost 1,500 plastic grocery bags every year!! |
| Fact 5) One recycled aluminum can saves the energy it takes to run a T.V. for 3 hours!! |
| Fact 6) Americans throw away enough aluminum every 3 months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet!! |
| Fact 7) Recycling one aluminum can saves enough electricity to run a laptop computer for 4 hours!! |
| Fact 8) Americans throw away enough paper every year to build a wall 12 feet high, stretching from Los Angeles to New York City!! |
| Fact 9) 75% of the electricity used to power electronics is consumed when they are turned off and not unplugged! |
Check back tomorrow for fact number 10
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