Sentences with phrase «waste billions of gallons of water»

People waste billions of gallons of water a year watering their lawns, and the landfills are bursting at the seams.

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• 105 billion gallons of water will be wasted on producing turkey meat that people will never eat — that's enough to supply New York City for more than 100 days.

I've been mindful of the amount of water I use when making a pot of coffee ever since learning that one - third of the tap water used for drinking in North America is actually used to brew our daily cups of joe — and that if each of us avoided wasting just one cupful of coffee a day, we could save enough water over the course of a year to provide two gallons to every one of the more than 1.1 billion people who don't have access to freshwater at all.

Evaporation from overwatered lawns cost the city of Los Angeles 70 billion gallons of wasted water a year.

Biodegradable corn plastic cups and seed paper sleeves were available and the campaign's signage was read by all waiting in line, stating: Switching from a disposable to a reusable mug can save 9 million trees a year, 5.7 billion gallons of water and eliminate 363 million pounds of solid waste from landfill.

In the US, over 12.4 million trees and 13 billion gallons of water are consumed each year in the creation of paper receipts, generating 1.5 billion pounds of waste and 4 billion pounds of CO2.

More than 62 billion pieces (4 million tons) of junk mail are produced each year, wasting 28 billion gallons of water between production and recycling.