10 Earth Day facts to inspire real change

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April 21, 2016

10 Earth Day facts to inspire real change

On April 22nd each year, there are celebrations held in more than 192 countries around the world for Earth Day. Meant to show support for protecting the environment, Earth Day is an important day to help raise awareness of the impact we have on the environment and what can be done about it. Here are 10 Earth Day facts to inspire real change.

About 95 percent of the water entering our homes goes down the drain.
Older toilets can use three gallons of clean water with every flush, while new toilets use as little as one gallon.
The average person uses about 12,000 gallons of water each year.
Americans now use 127 percent more water than we did in 1950.
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to watch three hours of TV.
It takes ninety percent less energy to recycle aluminum cans than to manufacture new ones.
The average person tosses out about four pounds of garbage every day.
Only twenty-seven percent of newspapers in the U.S. are recycled.
If all newspapers were recycled it would save one quarter of a billion trees every year.
Every year there are 14,000,000,000 pounds of garbage thrown into the oceans which kills at least 1 million creatures in the ocean annually.

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