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A lot of people in the world today are lazy. Walking
to the nearest trash can be seen as a struggle, so many people just
choose to litter the streets with their garbage. Pollution is a very
alarming problem for the world right now though and it is only getting
worse. The influx of new technology and our reluctance to recycle
creates more and more waste.
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1. Nearly 700 million Chinese people drink contaminated water
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2. For every 1 million tons of oil that is shipped, 1 ton is spilled.
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3. If you spend one day in Beijing
breathing the air, it has the same health effects as smoking 21
cigarettes.
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4. While Americans make up only 5% of the world's population, they
account for 30% of the world's waste and use 25% of the world's
resources.
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5. 1 in every 8 deaths on Earth can be linked to air pollution.
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6. The pollution hovering above China is visible from space.
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7. Marine creatures swallow plastic bags because they think they are
edible jellyfish.
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8. 14 billion pounds of garbage are dumped into the ocean every year and
most of it is plastic.
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9. Breathing the air in Mumbai for one whole day is equivalent to
smoking 100 cigarettes.
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10. 3.4 million people die each year because of water
related problems.
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11. Russia's Lake Karachay is the most polluted and
contaminated lake in the world.
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12. In 2012, 49 million tons of waste from electronics
were generated.
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13. Plastic bottles take approximately 500 years to
decompose.
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14. A child dies every 8 seconds from contaminated
water.
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15. Almost a third of the air pollution in San
Francisco comes from China. |