Protect Environment

ECO THOUGHT

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf…- Albert Schweitzer

 

DID YOU KNOW…?

1. Every ton of office recycled paper saves 380 gallons of oil.
2. Glass produced from recycled glass instead of raw materials reduces related air pollution by 20%, water pollution by 50%.
3. 50 million tons of paper usage annually consuming more than 850 million trees.
4. Every day 50 to 100 species of plants and animals become extinct as their habitat and human destroy them.
5. Amazon rainforests produce about 40% of the world’s oxygen.
6. One in four pharmaceuticals comes from a plant in the tropical rainforests.
7. 1400 rainforest plants are believed to offer cures for cancer.
8. 40% of tropical rainforests have already been lost in Latin America and South East Asia.
9. Trees renew our air supply by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen.
10. The amount of oxygen produced by an acre of trees per year equals the amount consumed by 18 people annually. One tree produces nearly 260 pounds of oxygen each year.
11. One acre of trees removes up to 2.6 tons of carbon dioxide each year.
12. Shade trees can make buildings up to 20 degrees cooler in the summer.
13. Trees lower air temperature by evaporating water in their leaves.
14. Trees improve water quality by slowing and filtering rain water, as well as protecting aquifers and watersheds.
15. The cottonwood tree seed is the seed that stays in flight the longest. The tiny seed is surrounded by ultra-light, white fluff hairs that can carry it on the air for several days.
16. Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year
17. The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials.
18. Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute
19. It is estimated that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.
20. Half of the world's species of plants and animals will be destroyed over the next quarter century due to rainforest deforestation.
21. 137 plant, animal and insect species are being lost every single day due to rainforest deforestation.
22. One hectare of lowland rainforest in South America can contain as many frog species as in all of North America.

 

Sekretariat EOSH____2010

~Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find~