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» Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Earth Day Thoughts
Posted by Roselle Agner, Mid-South Regional Director

In honor of Earth Day I want to share some interesting facts and numbers about our environment:

The average number of solid waste produced by college students a year 640

The number of trees saved from recycling 1 ton of paper 17

The percentage of solid waste disposed of in landfills 95

Percentage of recycled materials in Better World Books shipping boxes 50

The amount of books saved from landfills through "Book Drives for Better Lives" 6,200 tons (aka 6200 * 17 = ~105,400 trees!)

The amount of carbon offsets from Betterworld.com sales 1725 tons

The number of people needed to start change and make a difference ***1***

Thank you for your contribution to positive social and environmental changes through book drives on your campus [ed.-- and book purchases at Betterworld.com]!

Happy Earth Day,
Roselle
Posted by Jack on 4/22/2008 UTC
#    Comments [3]
4/25/2008 4:27:02 PM UTC
Some of you might find this interesting:

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Basically, it's a high-level overview of how/why we create so much waste. There's are lots of ways to reduce waste, and BWB provides a number of options in that department. Keep up the great work! :-)
danaca |danacabAT NOSPAMgmail dot com
4/28/2008 2:09:42 PM UTC
Is there a source for these numbers, by any chance?

Just curious on a few of them:

The average number of solid waste produced by college students a year 640

>> What is a number of solid wastes? Is this a number of bowel movements? Or kilograms of solid waste? Or bins emptied?

The number of trees saved from recycling 1 ton of paper 17

>> Confused on this one as well... does that mean most trees harvested for pulp weigh less than 1 ton? More specifically, 1/17th of a ton? Assuming English units, that means that the average tree harvested for 117 lbs of usable paper material. Can this really be?

Curios,

-Holden
Holden |hbonwit04AT NOSPAMyahoo dot com
5/5/2008 3:50:45 PM UTC
Is there a source for these numbers, by any chance?

Just curious on a few of them:

The average number of solid waste produced by college students a year 640

>> What is a number of solid wastes? Is this a number of bowel movements? Or kilograms of solid waste? Or bins emptied?
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