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Miscellaneous Green Facts and Myths
What you don’t know can and will hurt our environment and future generations.
In America, we throw away:
- 25 billion Styrofoam coffee cups every year.
- 2.5 million plastic beverage bottles every hour.
- Over 40 billion soft drink cans and bottles every year.
- Enough wood and paper each year that could heat 50 million homes for 20 years.
Other Startling Facts
America's refrigerators use about 7 percent of the nation's total electricity consumption which is equal to the output of about 25 large power plants.
- By turning the heat down, Americans could save more than 500,000 barrels of oil each day which would be over 21,000,000 gallons of oil saved!
- Each gallon of gas used by a car contributes about 19 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere that means a single car driving 1,000 miles a month and that adds up to 120 tons of CO2 a year.
- We dump nearly 16 tons of sewage into our waterways every minute of every day.
How and Why Businesses Create Sustainability Programs
- Customer demand is now the primary driver for businesses to create sustainability best practices.
- Most business sustainability initiatives include relocating to more energy efficient buildings, to reducing the company’s “carbon footprint”, and to implement green procurement practices.
- And in some cases it is the “aha” moment for business owners.
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