Go Green Save the Earth

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Go Green Save the Earth

• By GTC

Stats Environment Ways to Help
The Rainforest
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Stats

• 2.5 million plastic bottles are tossed out each
  hour
• Each gallon of gas used by a car contributes
  about 19 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere
• For a single car driving 1,000 miles a month,
  that adds up to 120 tons of CO2 a year

Stats Environment Ways to Help
The Rainforest
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Environment

• Some of these plants may help cure cancer
• Buy items in bulk from loose bins when possible
  to reduce packaging
• Avoid products with several layers of packaging
  when only one is sufficient
• About 33 of what we throw away is packaging.

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Ways to help

• Reuse packaging cartons and shipping materials
• Old newspapers make great packaging material
• Use recycled wood chips as mulch to keep weeds
  down, retain moisture and prevent erosion
•  Use compact fluorescent light bulbs to save
  money and energy
• Buy new appliances
• old refrigerators, use up to 50 more electricity
  than newer models.
• Use cloth napkins instead of paper ones

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The Rainforest

• On average, rainforest destruction includes
• 64 acres/minute 3,800 acres/hour 93,000
  acres/day
• 2,800,000 acres/month
• 33,800,000 acres/year
• A rainforest contains more than half of all
  living things known to man and is thick with many
  types of plants, trees, flowers, animals, birds,
  insects, and reptiles
• Almost half of the prescribed drugs that are used
  in the USA come from rainforest plants
• Children with leukemia are treated with a drug
  from a rainforest flower
• Burning the forest adds to the greenhouse effect.
  Carbon dioxide traps heat in the lower
  atmosphere, which may cause global warming.
• Without the rainforest to soak up rain and
  release it slowly, floods and droughts become
  more common
• They also have a right to exist simply because
  they are part of life on Earth

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You can help save the EarthNow, go recycle and
go make a difference in the world