A clubber’s contribution after one of the clubs…

This was sent to me ny Mike after the Ecology club…

Just think… (in Russian)

What we breathe and how soon we die depends… on ourselves! Неожиданные экологические факты.

These are the facts that my students were surprized at and even shocked by. Teachers — find the downloadable worksheet below the text.

Picture source: PGiGreen Blog (click the pic) , facts source: http://library.thinkquest.org/11353/facts.htm

• Energy saved from one recycled (переработанный) aluminum can will operate a TV set for 3 hours, and is the equivalent to half a can of gasoline.
• About 1% of U.S. landfill (свалки) space is full of disposable diapers (памперсы), which take 500 years to decompose (разлагаться).