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Living Green Facts

Fact:	Fact on Living Green 3/3/2008	View Fact
Published:	3/3/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 259 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Living Green & Waste Management

Fact Details: In the U.S. we generate 300 pounds of packaging waste per person each year and 32% of the entire domestic waste stream consists of containers and packaging.

Fact:	Fact on Living Green 2/23/2008	View Fact
Published:	2/23/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 269 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Living Green

Fact Details: The average American consumes over 25 times more resources than the average person from a developing country. That means that a family in a developing country would have to have 75 children to have the same environmental impact as an American family with three children!

Fact:	Fact on Living Green 2/23/2008	View Fact
Published:	2/23/2008	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Frank K 269 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Living Green

Fact Details: The addition of 3.2 million Americans each year has a greater resource impact upon the Earth than all of the millions of people added last year in India and Africa combined.