Environmental Statistics

 

• 1. On a national average, the cost of one bottled water in a gas station could fill up 4,000 bottles of municipal water.
  
  
• 2. Only 23 percent of plastic bottles actually get recycled.
  
  
• 3. USDA certified shampoos actually contain at least 95 percent organic ingredients.
  
  
• 4. Driving an average of 1,000 miles a month produces about 120 tons of carbon dioxide a year.
  
  
• 5. If all the cars on U.S. roads had properly inflated tires, it would save nearly 2 billion gallons of gasoline a year.
  
  
• 6. Only three tenths of one percent of the water on the planet is suitable for human use.
  
  
• 7. The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50 million homes for 20 years.
  
  
• 8. 99.5 percent of all fresh water on Earth is in icecaps and glaciers.
  
  
• 9. Each gallon of gas used by a car contributes about 19 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere. For a single car driving 1,000 miles a month, that adds up to 120 tons of CO2 a year.
  
  
• 10. A single polystyrene (Styrofoam) cup contains one billion billion molecules of CFCs--that's 1,000,000,000,000,000,000.
  
  
• 11. Once a CFC atom reaches the ozone layer, it can take over 100 years before it breaks up and becomes harmless.
  
  
• 12. About 110 million Americans live in areas with levels of air pollutants the federal government considers to be harmful.
  
  
• 13. Americans dump 16 tons of sewage into their waters--every minute of every day.
  
  
• 14. Although water covers two-thirds of the surface of the Earth, all the fresh water in lakes, streams, and rivers represents only one-hundredth of the Earth's total water.
  
  
• 15. Each year, 1 million sea birds, 100,000 marine mammals, and 50,000 fur seals are killed as the result of eating or being strangled in plastic.
  
  
• 16. Americans throw away 25 billion Styrofoam coffee cups every year, and 2.5 million plastic beverage bottles every hour.
  
  
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