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After much observation and research, scientists have found some easy ways to make you feel happier. Make a difference! You’ll get an ego boost and feel better about yourself knowing you’ve done something nice for someone else. Or how about being nice to Mother Earth? By taking shorter showers, recycling, or organizing a clothing swap, you can help the planet and make a difference! Try making a change for the better in your community, school, or home. Then enjoy those happy feelings. Who knew being green could make everyone so much happier?

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Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour. Most of them are thrown away instead of recycled!

Does your family recycle? Find out why it’s so important to recycle plastic bottles.

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On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day. Since then, every year people all over the world come together on April 22 to improve the world around them by picking up litter and garbage, cleaning up parks and coastlines, planting trees, and more!e

What will you do to celebrate? Grab a parent and find an EPA Earth Day event near you.

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The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.

Reduce the amount of paper sent to the landfill by recycling. Check out more Green Tips from Zipper!

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An estimated 80,000,000 Hershey’s Kisses are wrapped each day, using enough aluminum foil to cover over 50 acres. That’s almost 40 football fields! All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.

Learn how you can recycle aluminum foil and cans and why it’s so important.

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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.

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Every month, Americans throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. Don’t forget to recycle all the glass you can by checking the bottom of the bottle or jar! Learn more about Recycling Glass and Plastic.

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To produce each week’s Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down. If your family gets the newspaper, make sure you recycle it. Play Recycle Roundup to practice your recycling habits!

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It’s estimated that Americans go through 100 billion plastic bags a year; this averages to 360 bags per person. You can help reduce this number by making your own reusable grocery bag!

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Did you know Americans throw out enough iron and steel to continuously supply all the auto makers in the entire nation? That’s a lot of cars! Discover ways you can Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.

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Currently, cardboard and paper combined make up over 73% of materials in landfills. Do your part by recycling appropriate materials. Play Recycle Roundup to practice your sorting skills.

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Did you know that 75% of each tree that is cut down for paper production is not used in a paper product? Next time you need to buy paper, make sure it’s recycled!

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Phenomenal Friday Fact

Enough plastic is produced in the United States each year to shrink wrap Texas.

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Phenomenal Friday Fact

Each year, enough plastic bottles are thrown away in the U.S. to circle the Earth four times.

Do your part to reduce and reuse! Take a look at our Green Tips.

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Did you know there’s a garbage “island” floating in the ocean? The patch, also known as the Pacific Gyre, is at least the size of Texas, and made up of debris including plastic bottles, toothbrushes, packaging scraps, and more.

Do your part and spread the word about The Great Garbage Patch and recycling plastic items whenever possible!

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Approximately 11,600 cedar trees are cut down to make the 2 billion pencils made in the U.S each year. Do your part to conserve trees and ask your parents to buy recycled or mechanical pencils.

Visit The Great Energy Challenge and Green Tips: Back to School for more great ways to go green this school year!

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Another Phenomenal Friday Fact!

The average U.S. citizen produces 1,679 pounds (626 kilograms) of garbage per year. Help cut down your garbage production by reusing things, giving old clothes or toys away, recycling, and composting.

Just one recycled can saves enough energy to run a small radio for more than ten hours.

Phenomenal Friday fact!

Glass can last for millions of years on Earth. So, don’t throw it away — recycle it!

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Money that is too old or worn is recycled to make roofing
tiles, stationary, and other things.

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Most fans wouldn’t notice it, but Super Bowl XLV was played in green stadium. The U.S. National Football League’s newest and largest stadium, Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, showcases a growing trend in sports toward greener arena designs and cleaner energy.

Sports stadiums around the world are making energy-saving improvements by installing solar panels, adding wind turbines, efficient lighting, increasing recycling, and improving water management systems.

For more information, read Kickoff Time for Green Stadiums on National Geographic News.

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David de Rothschild set sail from Sausalito, California to Sydney, Australia in his boat Plastiki on March 20, 2010. After four months in the Pacific Ocean, the Plastiki completed that goal when it sailed into Sydney Harbour. Plastiki is made of reused plastics and aluminum. David de Rothschild and his crew wanted their voyage to send the message that waste can be reused in new ways.

Visit Plastiki online to learn more about the journey.

Read past Plastiki updates on the Green Scene blog.

Photograph by Patrick Riviere courtesy the Plastiki Expedition/Adventure Ecology

Plastiki, a 60-foot catamaran made from 12,500 reclaimed bottles and a recyclable plastic called srPET, will set sail on Saturday, March 20 from Sausalito, California. Adventurer and environmentalist David de Rothschild and his crew will embark on a 100 day ocean adventure across the Pacific to Sydney, Australia. The team hopes to send the message that waste can be reused in new ways.

Be sure to check out Plastiki.

Track the voyage!

Listen to the song!

Illustration by Andrew Rae/Plastiki

The Plastiki is a 60-foot (18-meter) catamaran made of over 12,000 plastic bottles, as well as other recyclable plastic. The Plastiki will sail from San Francisco, California to Sydney, Australia. National Geographic Explorer David de Rothschild and his crew hope to raise awareness of plastic waste in the ocean, as well as to raise interest in using waste in new ways. Even though plastic bottles are recyclable, only about one fifth of them end up in the recycling bin. The rest end up in landfills.

Follow the journey and learn more about the catamaran.

Learn about Adventure Ecology.

Read an interview with David de Rothschild on National Geographic Kids.

Photograph courtesy Adventure Ecology
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