The term environment implies all the external factors - Living and non-living material and non-material - that surround man. In its modern concept, the environment includes not only the water, air and soil but also the social and economic conditions under which we live.
The world is full of amazing facts and features. We need to have a deeper understanding of these things to better understand and integrate with the environment around us. Unfortunately, most of us have no idea about many significant facts about the environment.
Here I have created an article about 30 environmental facts you might not know.
DID YOU KNOW? Facts
- On Average, one supermarket goes through 60,5000,000 paper bags per year.
- The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
- Only 1% of the world’s water supply is usable, 97% is the oceans and 2% is frozen.
- We consume over 80 trillion aluminium cans every year.
- A modern glass bottle takes 4,000 years or more to decompose.
- Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute.
- Every time you open the refrigerator door, up to 30 per cent of the cold air can escape.
- Recycling one aluminium can save enough energy to run a TV for three hours.
- 78 per cent of marine mammals are threatened by accidental deaths, such as getting caught in fishing nets.
- Approximately five million tons of oil produced in the world each year ends up in the ocean.
- The world’s tallest tree is a coast redwood in California, measuring more than 110 meters.
- The world’s oldest trees are 4600-year-old Bristlecone pines in the USA.
- We use 10 billion tons of water worldwide.
- Americans use 2500000 plastic bottles every hour.
- 50000 cans of aluminium are produced in the time it takes you to read this sentence.
- About one-third of an average landfill is made up of packaging material.
- Every second, Niagara Falls process 750,000 gallons of water.
- Each year, 6–8 million people pass away from water-borne illnesses and natural disasters.
- We have increased 2.4 trillion tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide during the last 170 years. Half of this has increased in the last 35 to 50 years.
- 70% of the freshwater in the world is used for agriculture. It goes up to 90% in rapidly developing countries.
- 27% of our coral reefs have already been devastated which is home to 25% of our marine life.
- Approximately 700 million people lack access to safe water and more than 2 billion have sanitation problems.
- Our sea levels would rise by 66 metres if all of the world's ice melted.
- The average college student produces 640 pounds of solid waste each year, including 450 disposable cups and 300 pounds of paper.
- A plastic bag is used for an average of 12 minutes.
- Adopting a vegan diet might lower agricultural emissions by as much as 70% and 63% adopting a vegetarian diet.
- Currently, more than 6 million people live in coastal regions that are vulnerable to sea level rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius and at 2 degrees Celcius, climate change will affect 1o million more people by the end of this century.
- The U.S. is the number one trash-producing country in the world.
- Our oceans have an average depth of 12400 feet.
- If everybody in the world lived like an American, we’d need five planets to provide enough resources.