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| Fact: Each year some
1.5 million tons of plastic are
used on the bottling of 23 billion
gallons of drinking water. |
| Fact: If everyone in America recycled their junk mail, $370 million in landfill dumping fees could be saved each year. |
| Fact: If every household paid just one bill online, it would save almost $2 billion a year in postage costs, enough to pay off the average credit card debt of 250,000 consumers. |
| Fact: About 70 percent of the fresh water used in southern Nevada goes to water lawns and golf courses. |
| Fact: Almost 10 percent of the waste at dump sites consists of telephone books. |
| Fact: If every American who washes a car at home instead went to a professional car wash -- a single time -- more than 8.5 billion gallons of water could be saved, and the country's rivers, lakes and streams could be spared about 12 billion gallons of dirty, soapy water. |
| Fact: If just 10 percent of U.S. households attached shut-off nozzles to their hoses and saved 30 seconds water flow each week, the water saved would fill more than 128,000 bathtubs a day. |
| Fact: One live nighttime concert event can burn as much electricity as 700 households use all year. |
| Fact: A
single fast food order of a hamburger,
fries and soda takes 1,500 gallons
of water to make -- including the
water needed to grow potatoes, the
grain for the bun, the cattle and
everything for the soda. |
| Fact: If tap water replaced bottled water in the U.S., it would save about $8 billion and help prevent 60 million plastic bottles from being discarded each day. |
| Fact: Each year some 1.4 billion movie tickets alone are sold in the U.S., and almost every one of them goes into the trash. |
| Fact: About 800,000
of the 1 million travel guidebooks
printed annually in the U.S. end
up in landfills each year and less
than 200,000 are recycled. |
