Environment Fun Facts.pptx

Some interesting and less known facts about environment

1. Environment Fun Facts Dr. Deepak Patel Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry OP Jindal University, Raigarh, CG

2. Around 27,000 trees are cut down each day just to produce toilet paper The world has over 3.04 trillion trees in the world. However, 27,000 of them are cut down daily to make toilet paper. This translates to about 9.8 million trees annually. Facts about Trees

3. Facts about Trees One single recycled edition of the New York Times newspaper could save 75,000 tree

4. Facts about oceans Humans use only 1% of all available water About 71% of the earth is water. The oceans hold approximately 96.5% of this water and the ice caps hold about 2%. The remaining water exists in rivers, ponds, glaciers, ice caps, lakes, as water vapor and our taps, among other water bodies. Only 1% of the earth’s water is safe for human consumption.

5. 78% of marine mammals are at risk of accidental deaths, such as getting caught in fishing nets. Plastic bags and other plastic garbage that ends up in the ocean kill over 1,000,000 sea animals every year. Facts about oceans

6. Facts about Greenhouse gases Greenhouse gases contributing to global warming Methane, water vapor, and carbon dioxide are the most common greenhouse gases. When their levels are too high, they contribute to global warming which results in the melting of the ice caps, rise in sea levels, desertification, droughts, floods, forest fires, and heatwaves.

7. Facts about waste Americans are the world’s number one trash-producing nation Americans produce 30% of the world’s waste even though it has only 5% of the world’s population.

8. The US burns 10,000 gallons of gasoline per second which is the equivalent of 220,000 pounds of carbon dioxide. According to environmental facts, Americans throw away 25 trillion  Styrofoam  cups annually. If you walk a mile along an average US highway, you will see, on average, about 1,457 pieces of litter. Facts about waste

9. The amount of wood and paper we throw away every year could heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years. Americans throw away 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour. Facts about waste

10. F acts about the Environment The planet is about 1 million years old and has over 1 million species going extinct mainly due to human activities. Thousands more species are on the verge of extinction.

11. According to environmental facts, fungi do the most in protecting the environment. From digesting minerals out of rock formations to consuming fossil fuel spills, and even de-radiating the environment. F acts about the Environment

12. The combined weight of ants on the planet is higher than all human beings. The world has over 7 billion people, and 100 trillion ants. F acts about the Environment

13. You’ve drunk the same water as a dinosaur The amount of water on Earth is constant and is always being recycled. There is a high chance that some of the water you drink will have passed through a dinosaur. F acts about the Environment

14. Everywhere you look, you see plastic. Your favorite soft drink comes in a plastic bottle, your shampoo, plastic bottle too, your takeout, in plastic cutlery. Half your shopping, if not more, is plastic. Cutting plastic out can be quite daunting. However, it’s getting increasingly easier to find plastic alternatives to common items like bottles and packaging. You’re not going to end the plastic pollution problem overnight, but here’s how to reduce plastic.

15. How to Reduce Plastic Use Bring your own carryout food container:  Do you love your takeout? Get it in a reusable food container instead of the single-use plastic containers. Get items packed in boxes instead of plastic bottles and bags:  when shopping, opt for items packaged in cardboard instead of plastic whenever possible. Cardboard can be recycled and biodegrades quicker and safer than plastic. Return reusable containers:  When you buy food items in plastic containers, bring them back for your next round of shopping for reuse. Reusing something is always better than recycling it. Cut out plastic cutlery:  When ordering food online, choose the option for not receiving plastic utensils. You simply need to check (or uncheck) a box. Better yet: Try cooking for yourself and skip takeout. Buy foods in bulk:  Some foods such as noodles, rice, and beans, bring you large savings in plastic waste when bought in bulk. Use your reusable bag:  You probably already have lots of reusable bags, but you keep forgetting them in your kitchen. The trick is to store a bag in everything you take with you—your purse, backpack, gym bag—and in your car. Start recycling:  Have you started recycling items around your home? If yes, are you doing it correctly? While most people know they should be recycling by now, even the best of us still don’t always get it right. Turns out, people recycle only a fraction of the plastic waste we produce, and that’s partly due to following poor recycling techniques. Encourage others to consume less plastic:  Get your family, friends, and co-workers to join you in reducing plastic waste and using alternatives to plastic. The more people recycle the better we’ll be doing to the environment.

16. Plastic Bag Facts: Stats About Pollution & Recycling The effects of plastic bags are undeniable. Only 1% of all the plastic bags used are recycled, the rest end up in landfills and oceans. Here, they kill thousands upon thousands of marine animals. While it takes just 12 minutes to dispose of a plastic bag, it takes over 700 years for this bag to degrade. But despite this, 160,000 plastic bags are still used every second around the world. We need to use fewer plastic bags if we want to save our planet. 160,000 plastic bags are used around the world every second An average family will use 60 plastic bags on four visits to the supermarket. According to facts about recycling plastic bags by Waste Management, only 1 percent of plastic bags are returned for recycling. That means that the average family recycles just 15 bags a year; the rest end up in landfills or as litter. A plastic bag is generally thrown in the trash after just 12 minutes of use. Once trashed, plastic bags will remain in the environment for 1,000 years before they decompose. If we joined all the plastic bags in the world together, they would circumnavigate the globe 4,200 times. Plastic paper will only start degrading after 700 years and will only fully degrade in 1000 years.