GREEN FACTS:
- Use public transportation whenever possible. Every year, public transportation reduces gasoline consumption by 1.4 billion gallons -- that's equal to 108 million full tanks of gas. Use different transportation for a game.
- If just 10 percent of U.S. households attached shut off nozzles to their outdoor hoses, we'd save enough water to fill over 128,000 bathtubs every day.
- Most baking instructions tell you to preheat your oven. Never do so for more than 10 minutes. If everybody reduced their oven time by an hour per year, we'd save enough energy to bake a billion cookies.
- Cooking in the average US home uses enough energy to generate half a ton of greenhouse gases a year.
- If you drink a can of beer after work and then tossed it in the recycling bin, that one (aluminum) can saves enough energy to watch television for 3 hours after dinner!
- Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away!
- If we were to wait for a glass bottle to decompose after throwing it away today, we would have to wait approximately 4000 years.
- Running a sprinkler for an hour consumes more than 264 gallons of water, and a standard garden hose uses even more.
- The typical American family throws out 550 pounds of paper, 18 pounds of steel, 90 pounds of glass, and 318 pounds of food scraps.
- The average residence uses 100,000 gallons of water in one year.
