Every minute,
one garbage truck
of plastic is dumped
into our oceans.

16 of the 17 warmest years on record have occurred since 2001—the Earth is getting hotter, that’s a fact!

Half of plant
and animal species in the world’s most naturally rich
areas could face extinction by 2100 due to climate change.

There is a massive
collection of floating
plastic trash in the Pacific
Ocean that is twice the size
of Texas and weighs more
than 43,000 cars.

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The US is the 2nd largest contributor to CO2 in the atmosphere, though it is only home to 4.4% of the world’s population.

On 3/15/19 more than
1.6 million students and
youth activists participated in
a climate strike, the largest
climate protest ever.

It takes a glass bottle approximately 1 million years to naturally decompose.

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It is estimated that recycling one ton of paper will save 17 trees.

If everyone in US
recycled just one aluminum
can it would reduce green house gas emissions equivalent to taking 6,750 passenger cars off the road.

Global sea level
is projected to rise another
1 to 4 feet by 2100 due to melting land ice and the expansion of seawater as it warms.

There is more CO2 in the atmosphere today than there has been for 800,000 years, since before the human species existed.

By 2050
there will be more
plastic in the oceans than
there are fish (by weight).

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