Do You Know That

DO YOU KNOW THAT…
* If just 25% of families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save over 2.5 BILLION bags a year.
* On the average, the 140 million cars in America are estimatedto travel almost 4 billion miles in a day, they use over 200 million gallons of gasoline doing it.
* Every year we throw away 24 million tons of leaves and grass. Leaves alone account for 75%of our solid waste in the fall.
* Over 100 pesticide ingredients are suspected to cause birth defects, cancer, and gene mutations.
* Every ton of recycled office paper saves 380 gallons ofoil.
* Energy saved from one recycled aluminium can will operate a TV set for 3 hours, and is the equivalent to half a can of gasoline.
* Glass produced from recicled glass instead of rawmaterials reduces related air pollution by 20%, and water pollution by 50%.
* Americans use 50 million tons of paper annually -- consuming more than 850 million trees.
* By turning downyour central heating thermostat one degree, fuel consumption is cut by as much as 10%.
* One ton of carbon dioxide that is released in the air can be prevented by replacing every 75 watt lightbulbs with energy efficient bulbs.
* Fibre optics, made of glass, are being used to replace copper cables throughout the world.



Key
* Garbage
* Pollution
* Ecoplanet
*Ocean
* Air
* Land
* Soil
* River
* Water
* Waste
* noise
Key
* Garbage
* Pollution
* Ecoplanet
* Ocean
* Air
* Land
* Soil
* River
*Water
* Waste
* noise

CONCLUSION
* We take pollution, global warming and all problems in Earth as a joke; but we really need to be worried about it and try to help. Because this is theplanet where our ancestor grow and our sons will grow. This planet is our home and everyone can help no matter what, there are very easy ways to help, because no matter how little is the action, that...