Facts on Holiday Waste


	Facts on Holiday Waste

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12-10-2007 12:43 PM

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holiday waste, holidays, landfill, waste, environment, reduce, reuse, recycle

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cbbd850c-22df-4901-b143-f0ff9d14e6d7/8ED58726-E132-4891-B5FF-44E70400223C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.recycleworks.org/resident/holiday_facts.html" href="http://www.recycleworks.org/resident/holiday_facts.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.recycleworks.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.recycleworks.org/resident/holiday_facts.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">From Thanksgiving to New Years Day, <SPAN class="boldtext">household waste increases by more than 25%</SPAN>. Added food waste, shopping bags, packaging, wrapping paper, bows and ribbons - it all adds up to an additional <SPAN class="boldtext">1 million tons a week</SPAN> to our landfills. (EPA and Use Less Stuff)</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.recycleworks.org/resident/holiday_facts.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">In the U.S., annual trash from <SPAN class="boldtext">gift-wrap and shopping bags totals 4 million tons</SPAN>. (Use Less Stuff, 1998)</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.recycleworks.org/resident/holiday_facts.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><SPAN class="boldtext">1.9 billion Christmas cards</SPAN> are sent to friends and loved ones every year, making Christmas the largest card-sending occasion in the United States. (Hallmark research)</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.recycleworks.org/resident/holiday_facts.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The amount of cards sold during the holiday season would fill a football field 10 stories high, and requires the <SPAN class="boldtext">harvesting of nearly 300,000 trees</SPAN>. (Use Less Stuff)</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.recycleworks.org/resident/holiday_facts.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><SPAN class="boldtext">38,000 miles of ribbon is thrown out</SPAN> each year. The Earth's circumference is 25,000 miles - enough to tie a bow around the Earth.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.recycleworks.org/resident/holiday_facts.html"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><SPAN class="boldtext">Half</SPAN> of the paper America consumes is used to wrap and decorate consumer products. (The Recycler's Handbook, 1990)</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8ED58726-E132-4891-B5FF-44E70400223C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>