Happy Earth Day trivia (from Sydney)

Fun/Weird Facts About Earth Day and the Environment!

1. Did you know that in some elementary schools, after Halloween and Christmas, Earth Day is the third largest celebrated holiday?
2. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to watch a TV for three hours
3. Earth Day started on April 22 in 1970
4. If every newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year.
5. More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of tinfoil. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people know it.
6. About only 10 percent of every landfill can be cleaned up.
7. Supposedly Scientists project it will take up to 400-500 YEARS for 1 disposable diaper to break down in a land fill!
8. If just 25% of U.S. families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, they would save over 2.5 BILLION bags a year.
9. Every day 50 to 100 species of plants and animals become extinct as their habitat and human influences destroy them.
10. Homeowners use up to 10 times more toxic chemicals per acre than farmers.

  

     So there are my 10 Fun/Weird facts about the earth! Happy Earth Day! (in advance)

~Sydney