The Human Footprint

The Human Footprint

Your Life in Numb3rs

•The Average American Life Expectancy is 77 Years.

•Follow us on a journey and see how each of us leave our mark on

this planet.

You Will Eat 19,826 Eggs

•19,826 eggs weigh 1.3 tons – that’s the weight of a Mini Cooper.

•You’d need almost 57 hens laying eggs for one year for your

lifetime’s consumption.

You Will Drink 43,371 Soda Cans

•That’s enough to stretch out 3.42 miles or 50 football fields with end

zones.

•Yearly, Americans recycle enough cans to power 1,118,000 homes for a

year.

You Will Read 5,054 Newspapers

•It takes 43 trees to make a lifetime of newspapers for each U.S.

citizen.

•It takes 191 million trees for the rest society’s newspaper needs.

You Will Drink 26,112 Glasses of Milk

•That’s 9.2 million cows working each day for our cereal bowls.

You Will Drive 627,000 Miles

•That’s like driving around the planet 25.18 times.

•It’s also enough to drive to the moon and back.

You Will Eat 5,067 Bananas

•That’s 1.1 tons of banana peels.

•Those bananas also will have 11 million miles of air time to reach the

United States.

You Will Take 28,433 Showers

•Assuming you take 5 minute showers, your lifetime water use is like

running the water for 98 days nonstop.

•Average shower uses 25 gallons of water.

You Will Use 3,796 Diapers

•That many diapers use 715 pounds of plastics.

•It also takes 5.65 barrels of crude oil to make that many diapers.

You Will Buy 8 Microwaves, 7 Air Conditioners, 10 Television Sets (you’ll

spend nearly 10,000 days in front of the TV).

You Will Buy 5 Refrigerators, 15 Computers, 7 Washing Machines.

It Adds Up Doesn’t It?

Source for this presentation: Human Footprint

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