Tons of Trash – National Geographic Kids Blogs

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Phenomenal Friday Fact

A typical American family consumes 182 gallons of soda, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That’s a lot of containers! Practice your recycling by playing Recycle Roundup.

Photograph by liaawesome, NG Kids My Shot

Comments

Hurricane
March 1, 2012, 5:57 pm

I didn’t know that, I think I should stop buying too much bottled-drinks. I think we all should
Hurricane
March 1, 2012, 5:59 pm

I heard that Aluminium cans don’t rot easily, and that’s why we recycle them. I think everyone needs to start to get interest in recycling!
loveforanimals
March 21, 2012, 10:31 pm

We should at least try to recycle.Its not our fault that we are buying but we need to care about it . We cant say I am lazy to do that. we should really pay attention.

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