Less than 1 percent of the world's freshwater is available for human use
Recycling 1 aluminum can saves enough energy to operate a TV for 3 hours
The number of oil barrels saved by recycling 1 ton of paper—enough to run the average car for 1,260 miles
The number of cubic yards of landfill space saved by recycling 1 ton of paper
The percentage of electricity UM gets from renewable sources for 2011
The number of electric car charging stations to be installed at UM this fall
CFL light bulbs last 10 times longer and use 25 percent less energy than incandescents
The number of trees saved by recycling 1 ton of paper
The equivalent number of hours a 100-watt bulb can run when 1 aluminum beverage can is recycled
The percentage of American trash that is paper
The pounds of pollution saved by recycling 1 ton of paper
The percent of recyclable water bottles that end up in landfills
The percentage of electricity consumed by home electronics while they are turned off, but still plugged in
If everyone at UM drove one fewer mile a day, it would be like taking 240 cars off the road for a year
U.S. cars and trucks emit 314 metric tons of CO2 each year—that's like burning enough coal to fill a 50,000-mile long freight train
The number of years it takes a plastic bottle to decompose
The number of disposable diapers thrown away every second in the U.S.—that's 34,200 diapers a minute, 2,052,000 an hour, 17,926,272,000 diapers a year
On average, 1,000 liters of tap water costs $1—that's less than the cost of one bottle of water
The gallons of water saved every year by shortening your shower by one minute
The number of years it takes a plastic bag to decompose
The number of miles food travels from farm to plate, when it is not purchased locally
The kilowatts of energy saved by recycling 1 ton of paper—enough power for the average home for 6 months
The number of acres of land paved over each year in the U.S.—almost twice the size of the Hawaiian islands
Producing bottles for American bottled water consumption in 2006 required the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels (2,700,000 m3) of oil and 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions
The number of plastic bottles thrown away every hour in the U.S.
The metric tons of electronic waste generated worldwide every year
The number of plastic bags Americans use every year
