1 Earth GCC 4/18/2013 Green Efforts Committee + 85 bags of trash, 40+ students and 5 GCC faculty

“Every 220,000 sheets of paper that are recycled saves 17 trees” “If everyone in America recycled paper, plastic, glass and aluminum, we could decrease waste sent to landfills by 75%.”

“Use a ceramic mug for coffee. Americans use 14 billion paper cups each year, more than enough to circle the earth 55 times.”

“If every household replaced a single bottle of body wash with a bar of soap roughly 2.5 million lbs of plastic containers would not end up in a landfill.”

GCC could recycle ~20% of the waste it currently sends to the landfill. (Down from 40% in 2008)

Earth Day Trash Analysis by Volume

Thanks — you rock!

Five Years of Green EffortsFive Years of Green Efforts Five Years of Green Efforts GCC Campus Sustainability Day October 24, 2012