1. Human footprint

3. 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!

4. Over your lifetime you will use/consume:
3,796 diapers pints of milk tons of beef or 5 average-sized cows tons of pork or lb pigs tons of chicken or 1,423 chickens tons of eggs or 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

5. 28,433 showers -700,000 gallons of water toothbrushes tubes of toothpaste bars of soap bottles of shampoo 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

6. 35 billion loads of laundry/year gallons of water -13,248 beers bottles of wine -5 refrigerators -7 air conditioners -10 TVs -15 computers -8 microwaves -7 washing machines years of TV watched -22,000 kilowatts of electricity from TV watching books (43 trees) -5,054 newspapers -627,000 miles traveled in a lifetime (25 times around the earth) -31,350 gallons of gas

7. 43,371 cans of soda

9. What can you do to lessen the impact of your human footprint?