Americans receive
over 4 million tons of junk mail per year.
It is estimated that it would cost about
$10 billion to provide clean drinking water for everyone on the planet.
About 3.5 million
people die each year from lack of clean drinking water.
We use about 65
billion aluminum cans each year.
Between 50 and 70 percent of America’s residential water supply is used for landscaping.
The average American creates
20 tons of carbon per person per year, while the global average is about 4 tons per person per year.
More than
43,000 tons of food are thrown
Americans generate about
240 million tons of trash per year. Germans create 1/3 this amount.
away every day in the U.S.
Every year
Americans dispose of 18 billion disposable diapers.
Nearly 1
billion people in the world are
Americans throw
away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
undernourished.
There is exactly one planet in the
People who change their own oil improperly dump the equivalent of 16 Exxon Valdez
oil spills into the nation’s sewers and landfills every year.
The world produces and uses Americans throw
out about 270 million tires every year.
about 86 million barrels of oil per day. The United States uses more than 20 million barrels of oil per day.
universe that can support life as we know it.
There is exactly one person who can
ensure that you do the right thing to sustain that planet.
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