Kids Can Do to Save the Earth . When a climbing team reached North America's highest peak, they found a pile of partially eaten food, foil wrappers from freeze-dried meals, plastic bags, and other trash left behind by previous climbers. 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.