Did you know, that...

- Electricity made of conventional fuels [as carbon, oil] pollutes the air, induces acid rains and speeds up global warming.

- Every kilometre you drive with your private car is, when it comes to fuel consumption, two to three kilometres using public transportation.

- Compared to the production of ordinary paper, during manufacture of recycled paper 74% less air pollutants are manufactured, as well as 35% less water pollutants. In the year 1921 round 20% of manufactured paper was made of recyclable paper. In our time, that number has grown only to 38%.

- To manufacture a ton of first-class paper you need about 17 living trees. One issue of a popular daily paper takes the life of 4000 trees.

- A energy-saving light bulb uses about 5 times less energy than your ordinary one, and functions 6-10 times longer.

- Around 500 tons of water are required to manufacture a single car.

- The average European family uses about 1000 litres of water a week just flushing the toilet.

- A plastic bottle thrown away takes about 500 years to decompose.

- 1 litre of used motor oil poured into a river or canal can poison about 1 million litres of water.

- Every year, round 2 million birds and mammals die just due to swallowing plastic thrash thrown away into the sea.

- The average inhabitant of Poland throws away about 280 kg of thrash every year..