1. The U.S. makes up only 5% of the world population,
c. but it throws away enough plastic bottles in a week to encircle the Earth 5 times!
2. On average, ONE supermarket gives away 60,500,000 paper bags per year!
a. Bring a reusable bag instead!
3. A modern glass bottle takes 4000 years or more
f. to decompose.
4. The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world.
b. This means that 5% of the world’s people generate 40% of the world’s waste.
5. In the last 170 years, we added 2.4 trillion tons of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere.
d. Half of this was added in the last 35 to 50 years.
6. Most emissions come from a relatively small number of countries. The seven largest emitters are China, the United States, India, the European Union, Russia, Japan, Japan and Brazil,
e. accounting for more than 70% of energy-related CO2 emissions in 2004.
