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| Fact: More than 150,000 plastic bottles of shampoo are used every year in a single 300-room Las Vegas hotel. |
| Fact: If each of the 1.7 million rental cars in the U.S. were a hybrid, more than 9 million gallons of gasoline would be saved -- every time the tanks are filled. |
| Fact: About 130 million cell phones are thrown away each year. Soon, the number of discarded cell phones will surpass the number purchased. |
| If 20 percent of U.S. households replaced one cordless phone with a corded model, we would save 560 million kilowatt hours annually -- enough to power 130,000 phone conversations for every waking hour. |
| Fact: Buying a refurbished computer instead of a new one would save the 139 pounds of waste, 7,300 gallons of water and 2,300 kilowatt hours of energy required to manufacture a new one. |
| Fact: If just 1 percent of the 20 million computers discarded each year were replaced with refurbished machines, the waste saved could fill more than 1,700 garbage trucks; the water conserved could fill 73,000 backyard swimming pools, and the energy saved could power every personal computer owned in the U.S. for 55 straight hours. |
| Fact: Less
than a third of all children who
live within a mile of their school
actually walk there, while half
go by car. If just 6 percent of
those students walked, it would
save 60,000 gallons of gasoline
-- a day! |
| Fact: Americans discard 1.6 billion pens annually. Placed end to end, they would stretch more than 150,000 miles -- enough to span the Pacific Ocean from Los Angeles to Tokyo more than 25 times. |
| Fact: Paper makes up roughly 39 pounds of every 100 pounds of trash in the U.S. |
| Fact: U.S. businesses use 21 million tons of copy paper each year -- about 4 trillion sheets. About 400 billion photocopies are made each year, or about 750,000 copies per minute. |
| Fact: The
44 million people who work from
home at least part-time help reduce
the miles driven per year by 35
billion and save almost 2 billion
gallons of gasoline. |
| Fact: Americans
use more than 14 billion paper cups
every year, enough to circle the
earth 55 times. |
