THINK CLEARLY OF THE FUTURE… …before saving anything else, we have to save our planet, otherwise where are we going to live? CAKE wishes to sensitize, inform and act. Our main idea is that if we want to see a change in the world we have to start from ourselves Facts • One ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees. • Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to turn on a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. • It takes one million years for one disposable plastic pen to decompose in a landfill. • The average person in North America uses 250 kg of paper every year. Just over four and a half average sized trees would be saved every year if that person recycled the paper. Over a lifetime of 70 years that's 325 trees per person. • Recycling paper to make new paper products uses 65% less water, causes 75% less air pollution and 35% less water pollution. • Making new things out of recycled glass uses 25% less energy. • Making new things out recycled iron uses 74% less energy. • Making new things out of recycled copper uses 90% less energy. • Making new things out of recycled aluminium uses 95% less energy. • You can reduce carbon dioxide emissions (a greenhouse gas) by 1,870 kg a year when you recycle all the waste newsprint, cardboard, glass, and metal from your house. • On average, each and everyone one of us makes about 9.5 kg of waste a day. • When you recycle one aluminium soda can you save enough energy to run your TV for three hours. • One tree can filter up to 132 kg of pollutants from the air every year. • Disposable diapers take 500 years to decompose. • Glass can be recycled forever because it never wears out. • One gallon (4.546 litres) of used motor oil can contaminate one million gallons (4,546,000 litres) of water. • Almost four million computer disks are thrown away everyday. That's more than half a billion every year. It takes almost 500 years for a disk to decompose. • A one-metre high stack of recycled newspapers saves a 10-metre high pine tree. • Paper takes up almost 35% of all landfill space. • The average aluminium can contains more than 50% recycled aluminium. • A recycled aluminium can can be back on the shelf at your corner store in about 90 days. • Making soda cans from recycled aluminium reduces air pollution in the process by almost 95%. • Five recycled two-litre soda bottles can make one extra large T-shirt. • Since 1950, we have used up as many natural resources as every person who ever lived on the planet before that year. • Companies produce five kg of waste to make one kg of the product they sell. • Almost 40,000 trees are cut down every day to make the paper for Canada's daily newspapers. • Plastic can take up to 400 years to break down in a landfill. • By the age of six months, a baby has used up as many resources as the average person in a developing country uses in their whole life. • Recycling one ton of paper saves three-cubic metres of landfill space, 4,000 kilowatt-hours of energy, 29,000 litres of water, and 30 kg of air pollution. Memo: Kimberly-Clark, parent company to Kleenex and Scott brands, refuses to stop using virgin paper fibre from the endangered North American Boreal forests, which represent one quarter of the world's remaining intact ancient forests, vital to fighting global warming. More than 700 businesses have pledged not to use Kimberly-Clark products, and we encourage consumers to do the same. For additional information click here: www.kleercut.net Have any ideas? Want to do something about it? E-mail us at: planetcake@gmail.com Secure the future, Lucy Elliott