Go Green Tips

Did you Know?

• Toss a plastic bottle in the trash and it will take 700 years to decompose
• The amount of crude oil used in the US to produce plastic bottle is over 10 million barrels
• Each minute, American recycle 13 million aluminum cans
• Recycling a stack of newspapers saves one tree
• Recycling just one aluminum can can save enough power to run a TV for 3 hours
• A slow drip can leak 15 to 20 gallons per day
• Making glass from recycled materials can cut water pollution by 50%
  

What You can Do!

• Shop locally. The less your goods travel to you the less fuel consumed
• Cut the junk mail. Junk mail consumes as much energy as 2.8 million cars on the road
• Start a recycling program for your home school or office
  www.bottlesandcans.org
• Replace incandescent light bulbs with fluorescent bulbs and save 5% on your energy bill every month
• Unplug all unused or seldom used electrical equipment. Stop the energy leak
• Change your commute. A third of all CO2 produced in the US is due to transportation
• Invest in re useable shopping bags, containers. and water bottles
• Share what you know about conservation
  
  Read more tips. Download "City of Stockton Goes Green" pdf.
  

Connie Cochran
Public Information Officer
209-937-8827
connie.cochran@ci.stockton.ca.us