Trash
How much garbage is recyclable?
75%
How many trees (in area) are cut down each second?
A full football fields' worth.
True or false: Do we throw away enough food every year to feed all the starving people worldwide?
True
What does the company Blueland make?
Environmentally friendly cleaning tablets.
How many plastic straws are used every day?
Nearly 500 million- but many of them are recycled.
How many trees are cut down EVERY DAY to fuel the United States' paper usage?
200 MILLION
How much food do Amercians throw away every year?
60-80 million tons
What does the company Fair Harbor make?
Swim clothes out of old plastic bottles.
How much trash do americans throw away every day?
About 5 pounds.
How big was the area of trees cut down between 2001-2018?
About the size of India.
What is the value of all the wasted food thrown away globally every year?
About one TRILLION dollars.
How does the company Ugly Pickle Co. help the environment?
They buy disfigured cucumbers that would otherwise be thrown away and use them to make pickles.
On average, how many times do Americans wear a piece of clothing before throwing it in the garbage?
7 times
Name 3 causes of deforestation.
Agriculture, Mining, Cattle Ranching, Climate Change, Infrastructure, Urbanization, Paper Production
What do juicing companies usually do with their food waste?
They throw it away.
What was the first product the company UpCircle made?
A face scrub with used coffee grounds.
How many single-use plastic bottles does Coca-Cola make a minute?
200,000 bottles.
True or False: The Amazon Rainforest is suffering mass extinction because of deforestation.
True
Kind of random, but if you bought a dozen avocados, how many would go bad before you eat them?
3
What does the company Pulp Pantry make?
Their main product is upcycled chips, but they also make different food products with upcycled materials.