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Automotive Energy

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:56
Most cars on U.S. roads carry only one person. We have so much extra room in our 140 million cars that everyone in Western Europe could ride with us.
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Changes

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:55
If today is a typical day on planet earth, humans will add fifteen million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square mils of tropical rainforest, create seventy-two square miles of desert, eliminate between forty to one hundred species, erode seventy-one million tons of topsoil, add twenty-seven hundred tons of CFCs to the stratosphere, and increase their population by 263,000.
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Computers

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:54
Almost four million computer diskettes are thrown away every day, which equals over on and a half billion disks per year or a stack of disks as tall as the Sears Tower in Chicago every 21 seconds. It will take nearly 500 years for the disks to degrade.
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Recycling Metal

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:53
A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days. That's closed loop recycling at its finest!
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Recycling Metal

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:53
Used aluminum beverage cans are the most recycled item in the U.S., but other types of aluminum, such as siding, gutters, car components, storm window frames, and lawn furniture can also be recycled.
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Recycling Metal

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:52
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.
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Recycling Metal

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:52
More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product.
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Recycling Metal

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:51
Because so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste stream, according to EPA estimates.
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Recycling Metal

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:50
An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!
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Recycling Metal

Submitted by Earth Factiods on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 03:49
There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can be recycled.