According to the EPA about 80% of what Americans throw away is recyclable, yet our recycling rate is just 28%.
An energy-efficient home saves up to $400 a year in utility costs.
About 3.5 billion wire hangers get dumped into U.S. landfills every year, according to the Hanger Network. Thats about 60,000 cars.
We wear 20% of the clothes we own 80% of the time. The rest hangs there, just in case.
Each year, 100 million trees are used to produce junk mail. Each year, about 100 million households receive 16.6 billion catalogs.
According to a study conducted by a Boston marketing firm, the average American burns 55 minutes a day looking for things they know they own but cannot find.
If all U.S. households received and paid their bills online, it would eliminate more than 800,000 tons of waste each year.
The National Soap and Detergent Association believes getting rid of clutter would eliminate 40 percent of the housework in the average home.
If every household in the US replaced just one roll of 1,000-sheet virgin fiber bathroom tissue with 100% recycled rolls, we could save 373,000 trees, 1.48 million cubic feet of landfill space, and 155 million gallons of water. --Seventh Generation
In the United States right now, landfills are filling up and closing at the rate of approximately 2 a day.
If every home in America replaced just one incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent bulb, it would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes and prevent greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of more than 800,000 cars annually.
Americans toss out more than 100 million cell phones every year.
A glass bottle thrown away today will still be there in the year 3000.
Harris Interactive reports that 23% of adults say they pay bills late (and incur fees) because they lose them.
Ikea did a survey of customers in which 31% reported that they were more satisfied after clearing out their closets then they were after sex.