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Approximately 20 million people across the United States celebrated the first Earth

Day, on April 22, 1970 !oday, more than 1 billion people aro"nd the #orld ta$epart in the e%ent

&n 199' o%er 200 of the #orld landfills #ere f"ll

Each person thro#s a#ay approximately ( po"nds of )arba)e per day

Approximately ' million tons of oil prod"ced in the #orld each year ends "p inthe ocean

!he ener)y #e sa%e #hen #e recycle one )lass bottle is eno")h to li)ht atraditional li)ht b"lb for fo"r ho"rs

&n, 19*1, Albert Einstein, collected a +obel ri-e for is #or$ in solar andphoto%oltaic experimentation

E%ery ton of paper that is recycled sa%es 17 trees, 2 barrels of oil, (,100$ilo#atts of ener)y, *2 c"bic yards of landfill space and .0 po"nds of air

poll"tion

1( billion po"nds of trash is d"mped into the ocean e%ery year

/( of all ho"sehold #aste can be recycled

ore than 1* of all ener)y is "sed by people at home

ost families thro# a#ay abo"t // po"nds of plastic e%ery year

E%eryday in the United States, #e prod"ce eno")h trash to e3"al the #ei)ht ofthe Empire State 4"ildin)

!he 5reat acific 5arba)e atch is a s#irlin) %ortex of #aste and debris in theacific 6cean !his area is t#ice the si-e of the continental US and is belie%ed tohold almost 100 million tons of )arba)e

!he h"man pop"lation has )ro#n more in the last '0 years than it did in thepre%io"s ( million years

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ohn 8erschel, a 4ritish astronomer, con%erted solar po#er by "sin) a solarcollector box to coo$ food #hile on an African expedition, in 1/*0

&n some elementary schools, after 8allo#een and hristmas, Earth Day is the

third lar)est celebrated holiday 6ne in fo"r mammals is at ris$ of extinction : 7/ of marine mammals arethreatened by accidental deaths s"ch as )ettin) ca")ht in fishin) nets intended forother species

At least '0 million acres of rainforest are lost e%ery year, totalin) an area thesi-e of En)land, ;ales and Scotland combined

A%era)e temperat"res #ill increase by as m"ch as 12 de)rees

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4y "sin) rene#able ener)y so"rces to pro%ide yo"r daily ener)y needs #e candecease 62 emissions #ith 20,000 po"nds less of carbon dioxide each year,incl"din) '0 po"nds of nitro)en oxide less, and 70 po"nds of less s"lf"r dioxideomitted into o"r atmosphere

Americans thro# a#ay eno")h al"min"m to reb"ild o"r entire commercial fleetof airplanes e%ery * months

!he US is ' of the #orld=s pop"lation b"t "ses 2' of its nat"ral reso"rces;e "se one million )allons of oil e%ery t#o min"tes

ore than 100 million Americans li%e in "rban areas #here the air is officiallyclassified by the EA as "nsafe to breathe

!he US has less than ( of its forests left

(0 of o"r #ater#ays are "ndrin$able

200,000 people a day are mo%in) to cities from en%ironments that no lon)ers"pport them

Accordin) to the +ational Academy of Sciences, on a%era)e there are 27 oilspills e%ery day some#here in the #aters of the #orlds

?esidential la#ns and )ardens are do"sed #ith /0 million po"nds of chemicalpesticides and 70 million tons of fertili-ers ann"ally

&t #o"ld cost abo"t @1* billion ann"ally to satisfy the #orld=s basic sanitationand food re3"irements !hat=s ro")hly e3"i%alent to #hat Americans andE"ropeans spend on perf"me and colo)ne e%ery year

Each year Americans alone thro# a#ay 1/ billion disposable diapers &nperspecti%e, this is eno")h to extend from the earth to the moon and bac$ 7 times