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Tips to Save the World and Save Money Eat fish that is caught in an environmentally responsible manner. This helps to keep the marine ecosystem healthy, without compromising freshness and taste. Choose a car with high fuel efficiency. You’ll save money each time you fill up, and produce less carbon emissions. Check your tires once a month. Properly inflated tires improve mileage, under inflated tires waste gas and are a safety hazard. Use fluorescent lights. The EPA says that a new compact fluorescent bulb uses 75% less energy than a standard incandescent AND lasts about 10 times as long. You prevent waste and save money whenever you reduce your purchase of disposable and over packaged items or reuse more of what you already have; it’s easy!

History of Earth Day Earth Day is a day to celebrate the natural wonders of our planet, “to think about Earth’s tender seedlings of life” was first proposed by John McConnell in early October 1969 to a few members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and other community leaders especially interested in caring for and improving our natural environment. On November 25, 1969, the final day of the UNESCO National Converence, “Man, andHis Environment,” Cynthia Wayburn, one of the youth leaders on Mr. McConnell’s Earth Day Committee, presented the idea and showed the Earth Flag during this presentation at the luncheon. Many expressed their support for the idea.

Recycling Facts: Metal 350,000 aluminum cans are produced every minute More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product Once an aluminum can is recycled, it can be part of a new can within six weeks An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now

Recycling Facts: Glass Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials. A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose – and even longer if it’s in a landfill.

Recycling Facts: Paper Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year When you smell a dump, what you’re actually smelling is the paper in the dump

Recycling Facts: Plastic Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kills as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year! Every year we make enough plastic film to shrink-wrap Texas

Facts and Tips: Reduction During the winter, you can save as much as 3% of the energy your furnace uses simply by lowering your thermostat one degree F (if it’s set between 64 o F and 72 o F) 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 Purchase durable and long lasting goods in order to reduce how much and how often you throw things away Turn off the water faucet when brushing your teeth. This simple act can save 9 gallons of water every time you brush.

Facts and Tips: Reuse If every household reused a paper grocery bag for one shopping trip, about 60,000 trees would be saved Bring your grocery, produce bags back to the supermarket, and reuse them Use the backside of paper to take notes and do scratch work Turn empty jars into containers for leftover food Purchase refillable pens and pencils

Facts and Tips: Recycling By recycling one ton (2,000 lbs.) of paper, we save: 17 trees; 6,953 gallons of water; 463 gallons of oil; 587 pounds of air pollution; 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space and 4,077 Kilowatt hours of energy Recycled plastic is made into plastic lumber, clothing, flower pots, insulation for sleeping bags, ski jackets, car bumpers and more Recycling one aluminum can saves enough electricity to run a TV for three hours The steel from the more then 84% of appliances (39 million) recycled last year yielded enough steel to build about 160 football stadiums