Environmental Facts

Environmental Facts That You Need To Know

There are so many things that you don’t know about the environment. From the ocean, pollution, deforestation, climate change and more, here are some facts about the environment that you didn’t know, but need to know.

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Our Forests

DID YOU KNOW?
27,000 trees are cut down each day so we can have toilet paper?

DID YOU KNOW?
We can save 75,000 trees if we recycled the paper used on the daily run of the New York Times alone.

DID YOU KNOW?
American companies alone use enough paper to encircle the Earth 3 times?

DID YOU KNOW?
An estimated 50,000 species inhabiting our tropical forests become extinct annually. That’s an average of 137 species a day.

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Our Oceans

DID YOU KNOW?
When you throw plastic bags and other plastic materials in the ocean, it kills as many as 1 million sea creatures annually.

DID YOU KNOW?
By 2050, the world’s oceans could contain more plastic than fish measure by weight.

DID YOU KNOW?
In total, we use 100 million tons of plastic every year. Some 10 percent of this plastic end up in the oceans.

DID YOU KNOW?
It takes up to 1,000 years for a plastic bag to break down. On average, a plastic shopping bag is used for just 12 minutes.

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Chemical Production

DID YOU KNOW?
Man-made chemicals have made their way into every corner of Earth and human life

DID YOU KNOW?
Industrial toxins are routinely found in new-born babies and their mothers’ breast-milk.

DID YOU KNOW?
The snow at the peak of Mount Everest is so polluted that it doesn’t meet drinking water standards.

DID YOU KNOW?
We have more like 700 synthetic chemicals in our body that are not naturally part of the human body chemistry.

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These are some of our top environmental facts. Stay tuned for more as we continue to do research and update our page.

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