Fun Facts

Recycled/Upcycled Antique Glass and Bottle Crystal Earrings (Philippines)


HUMAN RELATED FACTS

• No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
• About 1% of U.S. landfill space is full of disposable diapers, which take 500 years to decompose.
• Every ton of recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oil.
• Around three quarters of the increase in CO₂ levels from human activity over the last 20 years is from the burning of fossil fuels. The rest is made up largely of land use changes such as deforestation.
• Every year we throw away 24 million tons of leaves and grass. Leaves alone account for 75% of our solid waste in the fall.
• Energy saved from one recycled aluminum can will operate a TV set for 3 hours, and is the equivalent to half a can of gasoline.
• Glass produced from recycled glass instead of raw materials reduces related air pollution by 20%, and water pollution by 50%.
• Fiber optics, made of glass, are being used to replace copper cables throughout the world.
• Over 100 pesticide ingredients are suspected to cause birth defects, cancer, and gene mutations.

Malunggay Plants in the Philippines

PLANTS

• Plants on the surface of the Earth have existed for around 400 million years.
• The waste hierarchy or 3 R’s are (in order of importance) reduce, reuse and recycle.
• Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.

Philippines Rainforest Mt. Bandilaan (Siquijor)

THE RAINFOREST

• Every year approximately four billion tons of carbon accumulates in the air each year, about 30% of this comes directly from the continued burning of the rainforests.
• When you visit a pharmacist, one in every four purchases will have come from a tropical forest.
• Medicine produced in tropical forests bring in commercially 30 billion dollars a year.

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