Saturday, March 14, 2009

25 Fun Facts

1. The average baby uses 6000 diapers before potty training
2. 49 million disposable diapers are used per day in the United States
3. It takes petroleum-based disposable diapers 200 to 500 years to decompose
4. 50 million trees are cut down in India each year for funeral pyres. This releases 8 million tons of carbon dioxide.
5. 1,023 pounds of greenhouse gases are added each year from one person eating three burgers per week
6. 31% of kids who live less than a mile from school walk regularly; half of those within a mile of school usually go by car
7. The average American uses 80 gallons of water a day. The average person in the rest of the world, on average, uses 2.5 gallons.
8. The number of synthetic chemical products found in the average American home is 63
9. The institutional cleaning industry uses 5 billion pounds of chemicals each year
10. According to US EPA estimates, indoor air pollution levels can be 100 times higher than outdoor air pollution levels
11. The number of handbags the average woman in the US owns: 6
12. The average amount of lipstick a woman will ingest over her lifetime is 4 pounds
13. Only 11% of the 10,500 ingredients used in personal-care products have been documented and publicly assessed for safety by the US government
14. 33% of personal care products contain at least one chemical linked to cancer
15. The average person throws out 1500 lbs of garbage each year. That number drops to only 375 pounds of trash to the curb annually if you compost.
16. The average American throws out 68 pounds of clothes and textiles each year
17. 25,000 tons of garbage is collected in the city of New York each day
18. 3 million tons of household electronics were tossed by Americans in 2006
19. The average American household spends $1,200 on new electronics annually
20. There are 300 million obsolete computers in the US today
21. 70% of all hazardous waste is composed of discarded electronics
22. 15 billion batteries are produced annually worldwide
23. Americans purchase 5 billion batteries each year. Those 5 billion batteries leave behind 146,000 tons of battery waste each year
24. 40% of the energy used for electronics in your home is used while these devices are turned off
25. Number of planets we would need if everyone lived like the average North American: 5

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And, by the way...

...we’re just monkeys with delusions of grandeur:

(Michael’s response)

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Self-help poem

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Mickey Z. on YouTube:

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