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Some quirky facts that if we do something about, could really make a difference!
HOT HOT HEAT. The light bulb is so inefficient that about 90% of the energy it consumes is given off as heat, while only 10% is converted to light.
WELL TRAVELLED KIWI. A single kiwi fruit shipped to Britain from abroad requires about 50 times as much fossil fuel energy in transport as it provides in food energy when it arrives.
KILLER P.C. The average office P.C. is dumped after 2 years. The waste contains billions of pounds of plastic, lead, cadmium, chromium and mercury. These cause cancers and birth defects. Recycle them.
MOBILE MURDERER. Our free yearly phone upgrade kills. Toxic substances contained in cell phones are associated with cancer and a range of reproductive, neurological and developmental disorders. Millions go into landfills each year instead of being recycled and leak into the ground.
RECHARGE YOUR BATTERIES. A single rechargeable nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH) or Ni-CD battery can replace up to 1,000 single-use alkaline batteries during its lifetime.
CAN CAN. Recycling tin cans saves 75% of the energy used to produce them from raw materials.
PAPER CARS. By recycling all of its office paper waste for one year rather than putting it in landfill, an office building of 300 workers could reduce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to taking 30 cars off the road that year.
OLD WINO. It takes approximately one million years for a glass wine bottle to break down in a landfill.
FREE STREET LIGHTS. If every household in Camden fitted two energy saving bulbs enough electricity would be saved to run street lighting in Camden for 3.5 years.
BREEZY BOOZE. An open window loses enough energy in a day to produce 130 bottles of wine.
BURNING MONEY. A computer monitor left on overnight uses enough energy to print 800 pages.
GRASS HIM UP. The air pollution from cutting grass for an hour with a petrol-powered lawn mower is about the same as that from a 100-mile car journey.
SQUEEZE YOUR OWN! Two litres of petrol and 1000 litres of water are required to produce a single litre of orange juice.
THE BROWN SEA. The average cruise ship passenger produces 10 gallons of concentrated sewage every day, which is dumped overboard.
SEE THE LIGHT. The average household has 2.5 light bulbs on for 4 or more hours each day. If every household replaced those with energy saving bulbs, the nation would save about 35% of all electricity used for lighting homes.
SUNBURN. Every day more solar energy falls to the Earth than the total amount of energy the plant’s 6.1 billion inhabitants would consume in 27 years.
COMPOST CARS. If 10 million tons of food waste generated annually were composted instead of being sent to landfills, the resulting reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would be equivalent to taking more than a million cars off the road.
COSTLY COMPUTER. The vast majority of the energy a computer uses over its lifetime is required during the manufacturing process (81%) as opposed to operation (19%).
STARVING. Recovering only 5% of U.S. food waste would represent one day’s worth of food for four million people.
HOW ON EARTH. For the entire world to live as an American or Canadian, we would need two more earths to satisfy everyone, three more still when population doubles.
WE’RE RUNNING OUT. Humanity is now consuming over 20% more natural resources than the Earth can produce.
PAPER CAR. By recycling all of its paper, plastic and corrugated waste generated in a year, an office building of 70 workers could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 12 metric tons of carbon equivalent. This is equivalent to taking 9 cars off the road in one year.
BURNING JOBS. Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates one job; recycling 10,000 tons of waste creates 36 jobs.
BONE DRY. We have available less than 0.08% of all the Earth’s water and our use is estimated to increase by about 40% in the next two decades.
GREEDY GOLFERS. The world’s golf courses require 2.5 billion gallons of water a day for irrigation. This is the same amount of water needed to support 4.7 billion people per day.
CERTIFIABLE SAVIOUR. A conventional washing machine uses 40 gallons of water per full load of washing, while the same load done in a certified Energy Star washer only uses 18-25.
COTTON PICKING WASTER. To produce the cotton for one T-shirt it takes 256.6 gallons of water and 987 gallons of water are required for one pair of jeans. Recycle your clothes!
NEWS FLASH. Recycling one ton of newspaper saves the equivalent of 100 gallons of petrol.
VIRGIN PAPER. Producing recycled paper causes 74% less air pollution, 35% less water pollution and creates 5 times the number of jobs than producing virgin paper.
DIRTY DRINKING. Just one gallon of used oil has the potential to contaminate up to one million gallons of drinking water.
ANY OLD OIL. It takes 42 gallons of crude oil, but one 1 gallon of used oil to produce 2.5 litres of new, high-quality lubricating oil.
GYM BUSTER. Save your annual gym fees. Walk to work!