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- And You Can Only Flush Once A Day, No Matter What
SF considering ways to curb plastic water bottles San Francisco, the city that regulated Happy Meal toys and banned plastic grocery bags, has a new target in its health-conscious, eco-friendly crosshairs: plastic water bottles. City officials are...
- Cfls Save You $$
GEI Recommends CFL's . . . An ENERGY STAR qualified compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) will save about $30 over its lifetime and pay for itself in about 6 months. It uses 75 percent less energy and lasts about 10 times longer than an incandescent...
- Bioplastics
What is Bioplastics? Bioplastics are the bio based plastics produced from renewable resources like corn starch, pea starch, vegetable fats and oils. On the other hand, conventional plastics or fossil fuel plastics are produced from petroleum. Conventional...
- Green Cell Phone
Now a days, cell phones are obviously playing a significant role in our life. At present, we can instantly communicate with each other by using cell phone. But, there is an inherent impact on our environment during using cell phones. When we talk or send...
- Green Products
What is Green Products? Green products are the biodegradable environmentally friendly products. During using these products, there is no hazard in the earth and environment when it is released to the air, water or earth. These types of products decompose...
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Did you know
Paper
- Paper makes up to 70 per cent of office waste.
Landfill Waste & Recycling
- We produce and use about 7 trillion plastic bags per year (these bags last anything form 20 to 1,000 years).
- The Styrofoam cups used every year would circle the planet at least five times, they are not biodegradable and are rarely recycled.
- Recycling an aluminium can uses only 5% of the energy required to make a new one. Recycling glass uses 26% of the energy. Every tonne of paper recycled saves almost 13 trees, 4,100 kilowatts of electricity and more than 30,000 litres of water.
- Daily worldwide sales figures of biros exceed 14 million: A plastic pen in landfill will still be there in 50,000 years.
Cigarettes
- Contain some 3,900 chemicals (many of which are dangerous to humans and living organisms). Filters are designed to trap some of the more dangerous by-products making the butt a poisonous pellet.
- Butts take 15 years to break down in our climate. Most butts are washed into stormwater drains and end up in the ocean.
- 4.5 trillion butts are littered worldwide each year.
Little Known Facts
- Standard plastic bags last for thousands of years in the environment
- Glass bottles can take one million years to biodegrade
- A disposable nappy can take 300 million years to decompose naturally
- A plastic bottle or ink cartridge can last indefinitely
- Mobile phones and iPods are made from metals that do not biodegrade at all
Home and Office
- An unplugged mobile phone charger wastes 95% of the energy used doing nothing.
- Leaving the lights on, combined with computers left on standby, can double a companys energy bill. Lights left on generate unnecessary heat, requiring the air-conditioner to work overtime, using even more electricity.
- An ordinary incandescent bulb converts most of the energy into heat not light. An energy efficient bulb can use up to 80% less energy and lasts about 8 times longer. Although it costs about 10 times more than an ordinary $1 bulb it will save over $80 in electricity.
"Developed countries represent 25% of the global population but use 80% of its resources and produce 75% of its waste."
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Story thanks to Green Biz Check
- And You Can Only Flush Once A Day, No Matter What
SF considering ways to curb plastic water bottles San Francisco, the city that regulated Happy Meal toys and banned plastic grocery bags, has a new target in its health-conscious, eco-friendly crosshairs: plastic water bottles. City officials are...
- Cfls Save You $$
GEI Recommends CFL's . . . An ENERGY STAR qualified compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) will save about $30 over its lifetime and pay for itself in about 6 months. It uses 75 percent less energy and lasts about 10 times longer than an incandescent...
- Bioplastics
What is Bioplastics? Bioplastics are the bio based plastics produced from renewable resources like corn starch, pea starch, vegetable fats and oils. On the other hand, conventional plastics or fossil fuel plastics are produced from petroleum. Conventional...
- Green Cell Phone
Now a days, cell phones are obviously playing a significant role in our life. At present, we can instantly communicate with each other by using cell phone. But, there is an inherent impact on our environment during using cell phones. When we talk or send...
- Green Products
What is Green Products? Green products are the biodegradable environmentally friendly products. During using these products, there is no hazard in the earth and environment when it is released to the air, water or earth. These types of products decompose...