G. Tyler Miller, Jr., Living in the Environment, 1990. 1,620,000 tons of cans per year. 350,000 tons of foil per year. Kids Can Do to Save the Earth . If a million people stopped their junk mail, we'd save 1.5 million trees.
Kids Can Do to Save the Earth .
225 pounds of yard waste per person. 4.4 million tons grasscycled or composted in backyard composting piles in 1994. Based on the 4.5 pounds of garbage per person per day, the average American will leave a legacy of 112,420 pounds of trash for his or her children. The average American consumer uses nearly 20 tons of raw materials each year, twice that of the average Japanese or European. A child born in the industrial world adds more to consumption and pollution over his or her lifetime than do 30-50 children born in developing countries.