10 Interesting Earth Day Facts

Every April 22nd, we celebrated earth day together. It is a day where we can teach our children how to save energy, how to keep clean, and how to spend less money.On the following list, we are going to talk about quick history of earth day and view interesting fact about earth day.

1. The History of Earth Day

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John McConnell, a humanist and peace activist, initiated earth day in April 22nd 1969. His idea was approved and supported by Senator Gaylord Nelson who was then proposed the idea of Earth day to the congress every April 22. The Senator’s proposal was approved and as follow up, first earth day was celebrated in April 22 1970. 20,000,000 Americans followed the first earth day and since that time, the issue of Earth day echoed around the world. In 1990, Earth Day became a new international celebration after 200,000,000 people from 141 different countries participated in the celebration. Year after Year, the buzz of earth day was getting stronger. Global warming issue and recycling was other fuel what make the earth day become more popular
2. Earth Day and recycling Quick fact

In 1970, 20 million Americans celebrated first earth day. Today, more than 175 countries celebrate Earth day every year
If in 1970 number of people who celebrated Earth Day was 20 million people, in 2010, the number of people who celebrated it was 500 million people.

3. Recycle Water

Different from 30 years ago, 32 percent of water we waste today is reused after recycled. About 75 percent of all water that came out from the ground is recycled and reused. The recycling is necessary to balance water resources in the planet.

4.Recycle can

Recycling one soda’s can is equal to saving energy to light one 100-watt light bulb for 20 hours, turn on computer for 180 minutes, and to run a TV for 120 minutes. It is important to recycle glass containers because if we do not recycle it, the glass will pollute our landfill for a million years

5. Recycle Paper

American utilizes 67 million tons of paper every year. In Average, one American is spending 600 pounds yearly. To produce one newspaper issue on Sunday, American publishers required five hundred thousand trees to print the issue. From all these number, 30 percent of them are recycled. Beside Glass, Plastic should be recycle because it will take around a century up to 400 years for our landfill to decompose the plastic
6. Earth day also means wasting less garbage. This is view facts why dumping less waste is important;
-Daily, most of us wasting 4 pounds of garbage. Most of the wastes compose Can, box, plastic and packaging boxes. Earth day reminds us that we already waste a lot and it is time to say enough

8. Why 22 April

John McConnell pick 22 April as earth day because that date is the first day of Spring on Northern Hemisphere of the earth and first day of Fall on the Southern hemisphere of the world. Not many people know this

9. If we increase the recycling number of Sunday Newspaper in America from 30 percent to 100 percent every single week, we will save more than 250 million trees. Those living trees will make our planet cooler and make mother earth happier.

10. First National Park

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First national park in the world is Yellowstone national park that was opened in 1872. View decades later in 1903, first wildlife refuge in the world was build in Pelican Island Florida. Every year, to highlight Earth day ceremonial celebration UN rings a Peace Bell ,which was sent from Japan. The Peace bell compose coins from school children around the world to support peace in the planet. This is our last earth day facts and if you want to say something, you can use the comment box below.