The Nature Conservancy

Did you know:

- the average American household produces more than 200 pounds of garbage every year?
and that just applies to food, not the packaging.

- every 30 seconds Americans consume 106,000 aluminum cans

- they use 410,000 paper cups every 15 minutes

- 2 million plastic bottles and 15 million sheets of office paper every FIVE minutes

- 1.4 million paper bags are used every hour

- and 60,000 plastic bags every FIVE SECONDS