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!
It is estimated that up to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year, more than one million per minute.*
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.
Only 50% of Nairobi's water supply actually reaches the customer!The other half is lost through leakages and illegal connections
The snow and ice in The Eastern Himalayas have shrunk by an astonishing 30% since the 1970s!
For every 2000 pounds of paper (1 ton) recycled, we save 7,000 gallons of pure water.
