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.