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| Fact: About 100 million gallons of mineral oil, a byproduct in the production of gasoline, are used each year in the U.S. -- equal to about 25 percent of U.S. daily gas consumption. |
| Fact: If one in seven U.S. households replaced purchases of separate bottles of shampoo and conditioner with a single two-in-one bottle, the annual savings of plastic could fill a football field 27 stories high. |
| Fact: Replacing a
bottle of body wash with a bar of
soap in every U.S. household could
save roughly 2.5 million pounds
of plastic containers from being
diverted into the waste stream. |
| Fact: If 100,000 people switched from
wooden pencils to refillable pencils,
210 trees a year would be saved. |
| Fact: Every American creates an average of 4.5 pounds of trash each day. |
| Fact: We would save more than 36 million gallons of water each year if just 1 percent of fitness club members in the U.S. brought their own towels, eliminating 4,000 loads of laundry per day. |
| Fact: If every American household could prevent wasting one ounce of edible food each day, the amount of food saved could feed the 1.35 million homeless children in the U.S. three meals a day for an entire year. |
| Fact: If
all the cooking in North America
was done in microwave ovens, in
one year, enough energy would be
saved to supply the energy needs
for all of Africa for a year. |
| Fact: Recycling 1 percent of the textbooks used for kindergarten through college would save enough money to send more than 4,000 students to a four-year public college for free. |
| Fact: Americans could save $500 million per year -- enough to buy solar panels for 40,000 houses -- if 10 percent of the money spent on new sporting goods was directed at used goods instead. |
| Fact: If Americans took 5 percent of the money they currently spend on new sporting goods and spent it on used sporting goods instead, they would save $250 million per year. |
