Fingertip Facts

1. The amount of pollution emitted by a lawnmower operating for one hour is equivalent to the amount of pollution emitted by a car driven for approximately 20 miles.
   (Source: Redesigning the American Lawn ­ Openlands brochure).
   
2. The average American Home has 3 to10 gallons of hazardous materials.
   (Source: Children’s Health Environmental Coalition)
   
3. 60 hazardous products are typically used and stored in the average household.
   (Source: Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce)
   
4. Replacing 25% of your home lighting with fluorescents can save you 50% on the lighting portion of your energy bill.
   (Source: Energy Savers: Tips on Saving Energy & Money at Home, Dept of Energy)
   
5. 70 million pounds of pesticides are used annually on lawns and gardens in America alone!
   (Source: “Turn the Tide,” www.newdream.org)
   
6. Reducing VOC (volatile organic compounds) emissions by 1 ton per year is equivalent to taking 26 cars off the road.
   (Source: Clean Air Counts)
   
7. 24 of the largest automobile manufacturers make low-emission vehicles.
   (Source: US EPA)
   
8. For every 1000 acres of land converted to native landscaping, 50 tons of ozone forming pollution would be eliminated annually.
   (Source: Clean Air Counts)
   
9. 1 ton of VOCs will be eliminated for every 1,000 gallons of low-VOC paint used.
   (Source: Clean Air Counts)
   
10. For every 5,000 households that replaced 5 incandescent light bulbs with 5 compact fluorescent light bulbs, 4 tons of ozone forming emissions would be saved.
    (Source: Clean Air Counts)