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• About 15% of all residential waste in California is food waste that can now be easily recycled by putting it in the green bin with your yard waste.
• Bottled water has been getting a lot of attention lately. Americans drank 8.25 billion gallons of bottled water last year (up 9.5% from 2005) even though it hasn't been shown to be any better than tap water, requires oil to make the plastic, produces emissions to ship it from wherever it's bottled, and then deposits 2 billion pounds per year in our landfills, since less than 25% of the bottles are recycled.
• It turns out that food (and all the energy it takes to make it) is one of the largest human activities contributing to global warming. The average American creates 2.8 tons of CO2 emissions each year due to their food choices -- even more than the 2.2 tons each person generates by driving, according to recent research (Echel and Martin, 2006).
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Most Recent Facts Posted
• About 15% of all residential waste in California is food waste that can now be easily recycled by putting it in the green bin with your yard waste.
• Bottled water has been getting a lot of attention lately. Americans drank 8.25 billion gallons of bottled water last year (up 9.5% from 2005) even though it hasn't been shown to be any better than tap water, requires oil to make the plastic, produces emissions to ship it from wherever it's bottled, and then deposits 2 billion pounds per year in our landfills, since less than 25% of the bottles are recycled.
• It turns out that food (and all the energy it takes to make it) is one of the largest human activities contributing to global warming. The average American creates 2.8 tons of CO2 emissions each year due to their food choices -- even more than the 2.2 tons each person generates by driving, according to recent research (Echel and Martin, 2006).
If you have seen a fact in the news that made you say "Wow", please send it to us and we'll post it here.