Excerpt from the article:
And if if you think you're pretty eco-conscious already, there is still some fun facts to learn. Here's some of my favorites:
- "Some 20 billion diapers are buried in US landfills per year, representing about 7 billion pounds of garbage."
- You can flush dog poop down the toilet but not cat poop (and ironically, it seems you can potty train cats, but not dogs -- drat!).
- "There is a Green Wi-Fi project, which has developed a solar-powered wireless router that can run for up to four weeks even in prolonged periods of gray skies."
- Burning a single gallon of gas produces 20 pounds of C02.
- Lunch boxes are hipper than tupperware.
- "Americans are said to throw away enough aluminum in three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet."
- "The average dishwasher uses about 15 gallons of water per load, while the average dish-washer (that would be you) uses about 5 gallons of water per minute at the sink.
- The US airline industry uses 53 million gallons of jet fuel each day.
I don't see it on the Octopus Book website yet, but Chapters and Amazon have it if your local indie book store doesn't.
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