Our throw away world: Did you know?
By:
Linda Bowen, Green Consultant
Every minute of every day, Americans throw 1,500 aluminum cans in the trash every
second. That is enough aluminum to make 8000 747’s each year! – CRI (Container Recycling Institute)
Every ton of recycled paper saves up to 17 trees.
It takes 75,000 trees to print the Sunday edition of the New York Times.
Plastic bottles can take up to 1,000 years before they
begin to decompose once buried.
Thinking of going vegan? For every hamburger sized serving of beef, 55 acres of rainforest is destroyed. A Smithsonian study estimates that the necessity for more grazing land means that every minute of every day, a land area equivalent to seven football fields is destroyed in the Amazon basin.
Linda Bowen
Green Consultant
Linda Bowen is a nutritionist, passionate environmental advocate, and mother of six. She has 25+ years in the natural health industry, including radio show host, health correspondent for TV news, writer, speaker, sales rep for a major nutritional company, and owns her own successful organic cotton clothing company. Linda’s passion is the impact our environment and lifestyle have on our health. She worked with an organic cotton farming cooperative in India, assisted in projects to bring running water and septic systems to small village schools outside Delhi, and she's dedicated to fair trade and social initiatives. As a green consultant, she helps individuals and corporations find solutions that support our health and the future of our planet. Linda can be heard on Tues and Thursdays on her radio show, One Green Planet or you can follow her on Facebook or Twitter at onegreenplanet.