Garbage—
Landfills are actually the No. 1 human-generated source of methane, belching 7 million tons into the atmosphere each year.
Americans receive roughly 100 billion pieces of junk mail each year.
Each year, consumers in the United States spread 300 million pounds of chemical insecticides, including compounds that the EPA says may impair the nervous system, disrupt hormones in the body, or cause cancer. (Yet people worry about MSG in Chinese food.)
In 2002 marine researcher Charles Moore surveyed 500 square miles of the North Pacific and found 10 pounds of floating plastic for every pound of living plankton in the water.
This is why we fail.
Garbage—
Landfills are actually the No. 1 human-generated source of methane, belching 7 million tons into the atmosphere each year.
Americans receive roughly 100 billion pieces of junk mail each year.
Each year, consumers in the United States spread 300 million pounds of chemical insecticides, including compounds that the EPA says may impair the nervous system, disrupt hormones in the body, or cause cancer. (Yet people worry about MSG in Chinese food.)
In 2002 marine researcher Charles Moore surveyed 500 square miles of the North Pacific and found 10 pounds of floating plastic for every pound of living plankton in the water.
This is why we fail.
