How much CO2 do we produce?

1. If you watch television 8 hours a day - 44.6 kg/year
2. If you use air conditioner (heating) 8 hours a day - 944 kg/year
3. If you use air conditioner (cooling) 8 hours a day - 743 kg/year
4. Your refrigerator produces 57 kg/year

5. If you drive 10 km per day by a small car - 16 000 kg./year






To be CO2 neutral, for every ton CO2 you must plant 1-2 trees.

This means that if you are doing these things, you must plant between 10 and 20 trees.

How much trees did you plant last year?

Interesting facts for plastic bags

- 1000 years are needed for a plastic bag to recycle itself

- 1700 plastic bags are used by an average American family every year

- 12 billion barrels of oil are used to produce bags for the average American family for a year

- 500 million bags are used in the World every year

- Countries, where plastic bags are banned: South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Zanzibar, Taiwan
-Cities, where plastic bags are banned: Mumbai

Source: thethoughtsontheworld.blogspot.com

Interesting facts for paper

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About 324 liters of water are used for producing 1 kg of paper.

10 000 trees are used in China for producing holiday cards.

77% of paper are recycled every year in Holland.

67% of paper are recycled every year in Germany.

52% of paper are recycled every year in Japan.

45% of paper are recycled every year in United States.

Every year in United States are printed 2 billion books, 359million magazines and 24 billion newspapers

Every ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees.

For printing the Sunday edition of New York Times are used 75 000 trees.

40% of rubbish is paper.

Source www.id2.ca

AT&T will invest in ECO cars by FORD

AT&T will invest $565 000 000 for the next 10 years, to buy or replace 15 000 vehicles on alternative fuel.

The telecommunication giant says that this will be the biggest investment, American company has made.