Did You Know…
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
- In North America, we produce enough garbage each day, to fill 70,000 garbage trucks. Lined up bumper to bumper, over a year, they would stretch halfway to the moon.
- To create just one kilogram of consumer goods, manufactures create five kilograms of waste.
- More than 20% of garbage thrown out by the average BC household is packaging.
- Canadians take home more than 55 million plastic bags a week.
- Glass can be reused an infinite number of times; over 41 billion glass containers are made each year.
- Every year enough paper is thrown away to make a 12′ wall from New York to California.
