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we are many, occupying one home.
As individual inhabitants, each of
our actions generates a reaction that ripples beyond us and affects the whole.
An average U.S. citizen uses the equivalent of 7 trees a year in paper bags.
Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute.
17 trees can absorb 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year.
Paper bags require massive amounts of energy to produce, and generate 70% more air pollutants and 50 times more water pollutants than plastic bags.
Paper bags, equaling approximately 1 billion trees, are thrown away each year.
Paper bags use more landfill space and the amount thrown away could heat 50 million homes for 20 years.
Some of the world’s trash dumps are so big they can be seen from outer space.
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