12 Steps to Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

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12 Steps to Reducing Your Carbon Footprint
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1 Recycle

• ? recycle paper, cans, glass, metal, textiles,
  plastics, and cartons
• ? recycling one ton of paper saves
• ? 7, 000 gallons of water
• ? 380 gallons of oil
• ? enough electricity to power a house for six
  months

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2 Eat Local and Organic Foods

• ? Reduce CO2 emissions
• ? Reduce air pollution

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3 Eat Less Meat

• Animal Raising Produces
• ? 10 times more fossil fuel
• ? more greenhouse gases
• ? nearly half of the water and 80 percent of the
  agricultural land

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4 Maintain Your Car

• ? increased safety, better fuel efficiency, fewer
  greenhouse gases emitted
• ? well-tuned, new air filter, and tires inflated
  to the proper pressure
• ? Easy on pedals, remove any
  unnecessary items

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5 Drive Less

• ? walk, ride a bike, take public transportation,
  carpool, or combine trips
• ? 20 miles less 900 pounds of CO2 saved
• ? 1 gallon of gasoline
• 24 pounds of CO2
• ? Carpool for 2 days
  every year reduce CO2 by 1,590
  pounds

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6 Replace Light Bulbs

• ? Saves 150 pounds of CO2 per bulb per year
• ? 1 kilowatt hour 2.3 pounds of carbon dioxide
• ? 1 CFL per family 90 billion pounds of CO2
  reduced 7.5 million cars gone

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7 Print Double-Sided

• ? American businesses use an average of 21
  million tons of paper every year, or 175 pounds
  per US citizen

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8 Check Toilet for Leaks

• ? Add food coloring to your
  toilet tank and wait for 30
  minutes
• ? Toilet flapper left
  open wastes approximately 50,000 gallons of water
  per month

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9 Take Shorter and Colder Showers

• ? Can the shower fill the one-gallon bucket in 20
  seconds?
• ? Colder Faster
• ? Turn the water off while you shampoo and
  condition and save 50,000 gallons of water per
  week

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10 Turn the Water Off

• ? While washing your face, brushing your teeth,
  and washing your hands
• ? Save 4 gallons of water a minute
• ? Save your family 200 gallons a week
• ? While you shave- 100 gallons a week

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11 Buy Products Wrapped in Recyclables

• ? One-third of the waste that America produces is
  packaging

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12 Reuse Plastic Water Bottles

• ? 2.5 million plastic bottles thrown away every
  hour