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Did you know?

70% of landfilled waste could be either reused or recycled

5 PET bottles yield enough fiber for an XL T-shirt

Only 1% of treated water is used for drinking or cooking

16% of Canada’s CO2 emissions are from household energy use

Idling a car for more than 10 seconds uses more fuel than restarting the engine

A 500ml plastic water bottle requires 1500ml of water to produce

Heating costs increase 5% for every degree the thermostat is set above 20^o

2 lbs of “red wiggler worms” can eat 1 lb of food waste a day

Nearly a third of household waste can be composted

Only .01% of Earth’s water is fresh, available drinking water

5 billion drink boxes are thrown away each year in North America

Only 5-8% of the energy used by incandescent light bulbs is for light

Canadians take home over 55 million plastic shopping bags a week

8.7 plastic bags contain enough embodied petroleum energy to drive a car 1km

You can clean almost anything with vinegar, lemon juice, baking soda and water!

98 tonnes of various resources are used to make 1 tonne of paper

$1 out of every $11 you spend is to pay for packaging

25% of cosmetic costs go toward packaging

Keeping showers under 5 minutes/day can save up to 4,000L of water/month

Cell phones are replaced every 18 months on average, and less than 5% are recycled

Used lead-acid batteries can be almost entirely recycled

90% of the energy consumed by your washing machine is used to heat the water

A full bus can take 40 to 60 cars off the road

Eating vegetarian will save over one hectare of land/tonne of food

The average North American meal travels 2,400km to get to your plate

Except in extreme cold, even diesel engines only need 0-30 seconds to “warm up"

Grasscycling can reduce fertilizer requirements by as much as 30%

Canadians use more than 1.6 billion disposable coffee cups a year

Across Canada, it costs more than $1.5 billion peryear to dispose of garbage.

80% of our solid waste in Canada is still going to landfills.

1lb of newspaper can be recycled to make 6 cereal boxes, 6 egg cartons, or 2,000 sheets of writing paper.

February 2012

Recycling Day in Fort Nelson 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Fort Nelson Town Hall

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