Impressive Pollution Facts
1. Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.
2. The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
3. Air pollution kills over 2 million people every year.
4. One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
5. Use of less fertilizer at precisely the right times can cut costs by up to 17 percent for farmers in developing countries and reduce damage to the environment.
6. The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles.
7. The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
8. The average American uses eight times as much fuel energy as an average person anywhere else in the world.
9. If emissions of carbon dioxide were halted today, it would take more than a century for the atmospheric level of carbon dioxide to approach its pre-industrial level.
10. Using a petrol-driven lawnmower for one hour produces as much air pollution as a 100-mile car trip.
11. A new study suggests that prolonged exposure to air pollution may shrink the human brain.
12. It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
13. Every year, air pollution kills more than 2 million people.
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