Human footprint
The average American: Throws away 4.6 lbs. of trash EVERY day! 55% ends up in the landfill 12.5% is burned up only 33% is recycled 694 plastic bottles are thrown away every SECOND!! That’s 60 MILLION a day! 21.9 BILLION a year!
Over your lifetime you will use/consume: 3,796 diapers -13.056 pints of milk -2.5 tons of beef or 5 average-sized cows -1.7 tons of pork or 6 150 lb pigs -2.3 tons of chicken or 1,423 chickens -1.3 tons of eggs or 19.826 eggs -9,917 lbs of potatoes or 20,000 potatoes -4,376 loaves of bread or 87,000 slices -5,542 hot dogs -14,598 candy bars -11,196 apples -5,067 bananas -12,888 oranges -29,700 lbs of garbage
28,433 showers -700,000 gallons of water -156 toothbrushes -389 tubes of toothpaste -656 bars of soap -198 bottles of shampoo -272 sticks of deodorant -35 bottles of hair styling gel -37 bottles of perfume -50 tubes of lipstick -1,277,043 gallons of water -567,575 gallons of sewage -64 tons of aluminum and plastic from bottles/cans -68 lbs of clothes thrown away/year -48 new pieces of clothes/year -$1,000 on clothes/year
35 billion loads of laundry/year -560 gallons of water -13,248 beers -942 bottles of wine -5 refrigerators -7 air conditioners -10 TVs -15 computers -8 microwaves -7 washing machines -12.5 years of TV watched -22,000 kilowatts of electricity from TV watching -412 books (43 trees) -5,054 newspapers -627,000 miles traveled in a lifetime (25 times around the earth) -31,350 gallons of gas
43,371 cans of soda
What can you do to lessen the impact of your human footprint?