Supreme Court Case: US v. Duke Energy - Jurisdiction & Modification in Clean Air Act, Papers of School management&administration

Download Supreme Court Case: US v. Duke Energy - Jurisdiction & Modification in Clean Air Act and more Papers School management&administration in PDF only on Docsity! page 3 T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F I O W A E N V I R O N M E N T A L L A W S O C I E T Y Upcoming ELS Activities JANUARY Thursday, January 11 Spring meeting Recycling Day Brown bag lunch with City Carton Recycling Tuesday, January 30 — February 1 Bake Sale! FEBRUARY Thursday, 22 at 12:40 PM Brown bag with Tom Podzimek of Cedar Rapids City Council MARCH Saturday, 3rd Raptor center visit More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of tinfoil. Not many peo- ple realize all that foil is recyclable. McDonald's saves 68,000,000 pounds of packaging per year just by pumping soft drink syrup directly from the delivery truck into tanks in the restaurant, instead of ship- ping the syrup in cardboard boxes. Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute. A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water. The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world's people generate 40% of the world's waste. During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made. A typical family consumes 182 gallons of pop, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S. Out of ever $10 spent buying things, $1 goes for packaging that is thrown away. Packaging represents about 65% of household trash. Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline. The Washington, DC-based Institute For Local Self- Reliance calculates that recycling creates 36 jobs per 10,000 tons of material recycled compared to 6 jobs for every 10,000 of tons brought to traditional disposal fa- cilities (6 times higher employment!) did you know? environmental facts read more at www.seac.org (student environmental action coalition) Stay up-to-date at: www.law.uiowa.edu/groups/els