Earth Day

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Advertising Supplement • April 21, 2008

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earth day 2008

Earth Day by the numbers

4.5 1,500 20

The average person generates 4.5 pounds of trash every day.

Reduce your carbon footprint. Leaving your car at home twice a week can cut greenhouse gas emissions over 1,500 pounds per year.

Every week about 20 species of plants and animals become extinct!

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One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.

A glass bottle is recycled and back on the grocery shelf in as little as 30 days.

Number of American families that will be affected by Asthma in the year 2020.

It takes half a barrel of crude oil to produce the rubber for just one truck tire.

25,000,000

Americans throw away 25 million plastic beverage bottles EVERY HOUR!

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