Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, adding 29
billion water bottles a year to the problem. In order to make all these bottles,
manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That’s enough oil to keep a
million cars going for twelve months.
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Unfortunately, for every six water bottles we use, only one makes it to the recycling bin. The rest are sent to landfills. Or, even worse, they end up as trash on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.
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Remember this: Recycling one plastic bottle can save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for six hours.
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The giant panda bear is found at the top of the Yangtze Basin. Its range is confined to small remote mountain areas in the central China provinces of Sichuan, Gansus, and Shaanxi. Its population is declining since its original habitat has been reduced to a mere fraction due to deforestation, farming, global warming, poaching, hunting dogs, and other activities related to mankind.
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