Notes from a Treehugger

These came from a friend who works in the Environmental/Sanitation department on campus:


Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for 2 hours.

Recycling all of the paper used in the Sunday edition of the New York Times would save 75,000 trees per year.

Throwing away an aluminum can wastes as much energy as pouring out a soda can half-filled with gasoline.

The energy saved from recycling a glass bottle will light a 100-watt bulb for four hours.

Replacing one incandescent lamp (light bulb) with a fluorescent one, saves 500 tons of coal.

Americans comprise about five percent of the world's population, and produce 27% of the world's garbage.



We must be so proud.