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Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint. Tom Verrigni. Water Usage. It takes 17 million barrels of oil to produce all the plastic needed for bottled water. Bottled Water also produces 1.5 million tons of plastic waste a year.

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Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

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  1. Reducing Your Carbon Footprint Tom Verrigni

  2. Water Usage • It takes 17 million barrels of oil to produce all the plastic needed for bottled water. • Bottled Water also produces 1.5 million tons of plastic waste a year. • You can help reduce this by buying reusable water bottles and by installing filters for your tap water. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyZbw8waVwk

  3. Replace Your Light bulbs By replacing traditional light bulbs with a fluorescent bulb will save up to 150 pounds of carbon dioxide per year.

  4. Drive Less • By car pooling, walking or riding a bike places, you can save up to 1 pound of carbon dioxide for every mile you don’t drive.

  5. Avoid excessive packaging • By cutting down your garbage by 10% you can save up to 1200 pounds of carbon per year

  6. Plant a Tree • A tree can absorb over 1 ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime. • Shade that is provided by trees can also reduce your air conditioning bill by 10-15%

  7. Works Cited • Baskind, Chris. "5 reasons not to drink bottled water | MNN - Mother Nature Network." Environmental News and Information | MNN - Mother Nature Network. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Jan. 2011. <http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/stories/5-reasons-not-to-drink-bottled-water>. • Jefferson, Millie, producer, and Weekend America. "15 Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint | Consumed | Sustainability Coverage From American Public Media." Sustainability Coverage From American Public Media. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Jan. 2011. <http://sustainability.publicradio.org/consumed/tips.html>. • Mackenzie, Ashley. "The Disadvantages of Bottled Water | eHow.com." eHow | How To Do Just About Everything! | How To Videos & Articles. N.p., 31 Mar. 2010. Web. 5 Jan. 2011. <http://www.ehow.com/list_6163978_disadvantages-bottled-water.html>. • MLA formatting by BibMe.org.

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