* An average car produces in a year 3 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
* In slowness traffic, the pollution level is 2 - 3 times higher inside the car than outside.
* In London move 40,000 cars per hour during the day.
* Over 20,000 tonnes of waste are disposed annually in the North Sea. 70% is deposited on the seabed.
* A ton of plastic means 20.000 of bottles or 120,000 bags.
* It takes 1.5 gallons of oil to make a carton of printer.
* The printer ink cost more than fuel for space ships or old champagne.
* Airports and airlines in the U.S. throw in each year a quantity of aluminum cans enough to build 58 Boeing 747 planes.
* Daily use of cosmetics exposes women to more than 200 chemicals.
* Mazda Motor Corporation recompenses employees in Japan to $ 12 per month if they come to work on foot.
* Reducing the number of cars in a city with 5% to 10% can minimize delays caused by traffic choking up 10% to 30%.
* A trip transatlantic plane generates as much emissions of greenhouse gases as a car headed for a year.
* Plastic bags and other waste from the same material, disposed in the ocean, killing 1,000,000 copies of aquatic species,in each year.
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