Gaia, or Mother Earth

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Gaia, or Mother Earth, was the first goddess in Greek mythology. She created herself out of primordial chaos. She also created Earth and the universe. Fact source...

Road Litter

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Over 51 billion pieces of litter are thrown onto the roads in the United States annually. Litter cleanup costs an estimated $11.5 billion in the U.S. each year. Fact source...

Cigarette butts

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Cigarette butts are the most littered item in the world, with over 4.5 trillion cigarettes are littered worldwide each year. Fact source...

The average woman

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The average woman throws away 250 to 300 pounds of “pads, plugs, and applicators” in her lifetime, which is equivalent to about 62,415 pounds of garbage. Fact source...

Tons of trash

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Humans create over 1.3 billion tons of trash a year, more of it in the United States (254 million tons a year) than anywhere else in the world. Fact source...

Acid rain

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The ancient Greek Acropolis is believed to have crumbled more in the last 40 years than it has in the previous 2,500 due to acid rain. Nearly 40% of China’s land area is affected by acid rain, and by 1984 half of the trees in Germany’s Black Forest were damaged by...