God is calling us to becoming a “Green” church with “Green” households by the end of 2008. Here are some cold, hard facts about how not being “Green” in America is affecting God’s world.
Facts:
-Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour!
- A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water.
- Paper products make up 40% of all trash. That can all be recycled!
- Only about 30% of paper, trash, and food waste is recycled.
- Americans throw away 25 trillion Styrofoam cups that cannot decomposed or be recycled
- All soda cans are made from aluminum. Each American uses about 400 cans a year. If aluminum is recycled, 95% less energy is used than if it were made from scratch
-About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material!
-The highest point in Ohio is a literally a garbage dump that is now called Mount Rumpke
-reprinted from http://www.dosomething.org/
Our “Green” Committee will be working hard over the next few months to help us understand how we can recycle and help God’s planet. I hope all of you are open to ways we can help this beautiful world God has given us dominion over. Please let me know the ways that you are currenlty recycling so that we can all learn from each other.
Stay tuned for: practical ways to recycle
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