Almost half the forests on earth have been cut down in the last 30 years

 Cotton T-shirt 4000 litres

 Slice of bread 40 litres
 Sheet of paper 10 litres
 Car 400000 litres
Many rural areas face water shortages and use less than 10 litres every day
Our brain is about three-quarters water and our bones are one-fifth water
We can save 92000 litres of water by not letting the tap run
A washing machine can use between 50 to 120 litres of water for every
load

If you find any dripping taps in your house get them fixed this will save
water too
Turn off the tap when you clean your teeth
Water sprinklers use 500 litres of water we better use water can instead
We must build a rainwater harvesting system in the school it can
collect nearly 19000 litres
Two-thirds of people live in an area with only a quote of the world’s rain

More than 100 million tonnes of rubbish every year

Plastic bottles can be melted down and made into new things such as park
benches fences etc
More than 100 million trees are cut down every year to produce junk mail
100000 tonnes of plastic bags end up as litter blowing around streets and
parks
Thousands of metal cans are crushed into huge cubes ready to be recycled
A million seabirds and 100000 sea animals die because of swallowing
plastic
When people throw litter into the sea they are dropping rubbish into the
homes of sea animals

Every day up to 70 million barrels of oil are pumped out of the

ground. We may run out of oil in about 40 years
More than 20 per cent of world gas and oil comes from undersea
Fossil fuels supply more than 85 per cent of all the energy used today
in the United States
Help everyone remember to switch things off
Every time you recycle a glass jar or reuse any material you take a
small step towards making less rubbish and if lots of people take
small steps in the right direction, they add up to one big step.

Harmful waste
 Batteries
 Paint
 Electrical equipment

The biggest waste dump in the world is floating on the Pacific

Ocean. the great pacific garbage patch is nearly four times the size
of Britain. Almost all waste is plastic
There are more than 600 million vehicles in today’s world
Walking or riding a cycle instead of taking a car means fewer fumes
and the exercise is good for your health