For every 2000 pounds of paper (1 ton) recycled, we save 7,000 gallons of pure water.
It is estimated that up to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year, more than one million per minute.*
The snow and ice in The Eastern Himalayas have shrunk by an astonishing 30% since the 1970s!
Only 50% of Nairobi's water supply actually reaches the customer!The other half is lost through leakages and illegal connections
2% of the household batteries in the UK are collected for recycling. Councils involved need to step up their efforts to reach their target which is 25% by 2012 and 45% by 2016.
Pesticide usage worldwide has quadrupled over the last 40 years, from an average of 0.5 Kg per hectare in 1961 To 2kg per hectare in 2004!
