San Jose Holiday Parade

Mrs. Claus’ Breakfast Nook

Sunday, December 5, 2010

7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

The Tech Museum of Innovation

SOLD OUT!


	Mrs. Claus' Breakfast Nook, Presented by California Waste Solutions! When you toss out one aluminum can you waste as much energy as if you'd filled the same can half-full of gasoline and poured it into the ground. - Americans throw away enough glass bottles and jars every two weeks to fill the 1.350-foot towers of the former World Trade Center. - Every year we make enough plastic film to shrink-wrap Texas. - The junk mail Americans receive in one day could produce enough energy to heat 250,000 homes. - Americans dump the equivalent of more than 21 million shopping bags full of food into landfills every year. - It takes an entire forest--over 500,000 trees to supply Americans with their Sunday newspapers every week. - One gallon of used motor oil can contaminate 1 million gallons of water. - Almost four million computer diskettes are thrown away every day, which equals over on and a half billion disks per year or a stack of disks as tall as the Sears Tower in Chicago every 21 seconds. It will take nearly 500 years for the disks to degrade. - Each year American throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam cups, enough every year to circle the earth 436 times. - 1 tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or 8,333.3 sheets. - We save 17 trees for each ton of recycled newspaper. -

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