Pollution severely affects the world’s oceans, and three-quarters of the debris that pollutes the seas comes from the land. Every year, 14 billion pounds of garbage are released into our oceans world-wide. The flexible plastic loops that hold together six-packs of beverage cans are often dropped on beaches. They seem harmless, but they become deadly once they float out to sea, where sea birds, seals, and dolphins may trap their beaks, heads, or snouts in them – often with fatal results.

A study in Texas found that 70% of all the trash found on that state’s beaches was made of plastic. Plastic never biodegrades; instead it photo-degrades, a process in which it breaks into ever smaller pieces, which then may be consumed by fish and wildlife. Make sure your own rubbish does not reach the sea. Help reduce litter on the street or it will end up in storm drains, which eventually empty into the sea.

This is the third post devoted to environment protection initiative ‘365 Ways to Save the Earth’ (You can read the previous article on our Dumpster Rentals Blog .). This Earth Protective movement was initiated by Dumpster Rentals Cooperative folks with the goal to raise public awareness of environmental problems and issues. This time we would like to share with the worldwide community a few easy-to-do recommendations on how we can contribute to saving not-renewable resources and protecting wildlife.

Calculate the greenhouse gas emission your air travel produces.

A747 jet aircraft consumes 5 gallons of fuel per mile flown. Airplanes account for 13% of the worldwide, transportation-related carbon-dioxide emissions released each year.

There are Internet sites that enable you to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions your next air journey will produce. One transatlantic flight produces almost half as much carbon dioxide as person produces, on average, in meeting all their other needs (lighting, heating, and car travel) over a year.

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Here is the 2nd post of the series of articles devoted the great initiative ‘365 Ways to Save the Earth’ that was initiated by folks at Dumpster Rentals Cooperative (read the previous post in our Dumpster Rentals Blog ). The goal of the movement is to raise awareness of environmental problems and share with the community of North America consumers some simple advice and tips on what each of us and all of us can do to keep our planet cleaner, protecting it from pollutants. By following these simple, easy-to-do recommendations each of us can contribute to saving not-renewable resources and protecting wildlife.

Below are some suggestions on how we can keep our planet cleaner:

Christmas is coming soon. Recycle your Christmas tree.

As soon as Christmas is over, countless Christmas trees are dumped on sidewalks, to be picked up with the household waste by Municipal Waste Management companies and burned in incinerators. This process, which is costly for the community, involves the waste of a raw material that could benefit the soil. Some towns collect the trees for composting. In Georgia,...