Interesting+Facts

Cows burp more green gasses than they fart!
 * __ E.L.F.S Interesting Facts!!!! __**

If just 25% of U.S. families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save over 2.5 billion bags a year!

The average home has roughly 40 lightbulbs and roughly 4 people. Imagine how much energy you'll save if you only used them one at a time. Roughly about 90%

Every person in Australia uses an average of 300 plastic bags every year! That's 6 billion bags all together.

A plastic bag can take up to 500 years to decay in landfills. There is an alternative. It's called a shopping bag, and all major supermarkets now sell them for just a couple of dollars.

A bus carries the same number of people as 50 cars, which means you are saving more fossil fuels.

Just turn your heater down 1 degree and your family won't even notice the difference! Just 1 degree will save a significant amount of the world's precious energy. Of course the same is true if you turn an air con thermostate up a degree.Or be a devil and make it 2 degrees!

Darwin is the most sustainable city in Australia.

==**A dishwasher that is 90% full uses 4 units of electricity. If it is only 50% full, it still uses 3 units of electricity. Fill the dishwasher to save on your electric bill and energy.** ==

** Replacing a single incandescent bulb with an energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulb (one of those "squiggly bulbs") can save up to $50 over the bulb's lifetime. **


 * By recycling one tonne of paper you save 13 trees, 2.5 barrels of oil, 4100kWh of electricity, 4 cubic metres of landfill and 31,780 litres of water
 * In 2007 Australian's recycled over two billion newspapers, making us the best newspaper recyclers in the world
 * <span style="color: #1ba71b; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Australia produces over 3.3 million tonnes of packaging each year
 * <span style="color: #1ba71b; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Australians use 3.92 billion plastic bags a year and dump 429,000 into landfills every minute