How much do you know about the world around you?
We all know the same story: we need to recycle, use less water, save endangered animals, etc., etc......But, how much do you really know about the world around you? Take a look below!
The amount of water on Earth is constant, and continually recycled over time: some of the water you drink will have passed through a dinosaur
40 percent of all bottled water sold in the world is bottled tap water
Humans and elephants are the only animals with chins
There are more than 1,200 species of bat in the world and not one of them is blind
Paper can be recycled only six times. After that, the fibers are too weak to hold together
27,000 trees are cut down each day so we can have Toilet Paper
We can save 75,000 trees if we recycled the paper used on the daily run of the New York Times alone
When you throw plastic bags and other plastic materials in the ocean, it kills as many as 1 million sea creatures annually
Credits:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/23/environment-facts_n_4318799.html
http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/amazing_environmental_facts