Interesting Information about pollution and Earth Day
Did you know that...
More than 20 million people participated in the first Earth Day.
It is estimated that trees are being cut down at the rate of 100 trees per minute.
A gallon of thrown away paint can go in the Earth and pollute 250,000 gallons of drinking water while
a spilled gallon of gasoline can pollute 750,000 gallons of water!
It is estimated that each person in the United States discards about 32 pounds of solid waste each
week!
There is 77.8 millions of tons of paper,3 millions of tons of Aluminum,
13.7 millions of tons of glass, 19.3 millions of tons of plastic,
and 32.8 millions of tons of yard debris generated every year in America. Of
those, 26.5 millions of tons of paper, 1.1 millions of tons of
aluminum, 3 millions of tons of glass, .7 millions of tons of plastic,
and 6.5 millions of tons of Yard Debris are recycled!
