Just The Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Environmental Protection Agency has found more than 700 pollutants in US drinking water. The Earth has less than half the forest cover it had a thousand years ago. Every three months, we recycle enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet. Thirty percent of US household trash could be composted.
Recycling paper creates five times more jobs than trashing it, and it even saves money.
Many pesticides were originally developed during World War II to kill people. On the East coast, rain is frequently more acidic than vinegar. In the last century, carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere have increased by more than 25 percent. Every second, a football field sized chunk of lush tropical rainforest is gone forever. A recent study by the World Wildlife Fund showed that Brazilians could make between three and 100 times more money from a properly managed rainforest than by current methods which destroy the forests.