Did you know these Green facts?

Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by admin in Did you Know

 
 
 
 
• If you took all the aluminium cans recycled since 1972 — an estimated 1,099 billion — and laid them end to end in a giant can-chain, they’d stretch all the way to the moon and back 174 times.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 • The Shoreham nuclear power plant in East Shoreham, New York cost $6 billion to build and was closed in 1989 without generating a single watt of electricity!

 
 
 

 • If you chopped down a 15-year-old tree and used it to make paper grocery bags, you’d wind up with about 700. That’s roughly the number of bags your local supermarket goes through in an hour.

 
 
 

 • The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world’s people generate 40% of the world’s waste.

 
 
 

 • A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose — and even longer if it’s in the landfill.