CONCEPT: COLLETTIVO AESON
RICERCA SCIENTIFICA E CONTENUTI A CURA DI DAVIDE SCRIDEL
DESIGN: DEVID STRUSSIAT

Il riciclaggio in Italia, ha fatto risparmiare in un anno 5 milioni di tonnellate di CO2

Fumare una sigaretta inquina più di una Harley-Davidson

I mozziconi di sigaretta sono il rifiuto piu comune sulla terra

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."— Mahatma Gandhi

"In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day." Lester Brown

Una societa’ e’ definite non solo in basa a quello che e’ capace di creare , ma anche da quello che si rifiuta di distruggere.

"A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy."
John Sawhill, former president/CEO of The Nature Conservancy

Only when the last tree has been cut down,
Only when the last river has been poisoned,
Only when the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

— Cree Indian Prophecy

"In the long term, economic sustainability depends on ecological sustainability."

"If you want one year of prosperity, plant corn.
If you want ten years of prosperity, plant trees.
If you want one hundred years of prosperity, educate people."

— Chinese proverb

"Food is power. Are you in control of yours?"— John Jeavons

"There are 70 pesticides that are listed as known or probable carcinogens, based on animal testing. Of those 70, 44 are in use today, and 23 are used on our food."

— Gina Solomon, specialist in internal medicine [2001]

"We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one."— Jacques Cousteau

"In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. Stopping the loggers is the fastest and cheapest solution to climate change."

— Daniel Howden

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.

There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can be recycled.

To produce each week's Times newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.

Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.

Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!

Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.

Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute!

Every day 50 to 100 species of plants and animals become extinct as their habitat and human influences destroy them.

Already over half of the world's tropical forests have been lost.

80% of the world's forests are gone.

2000 trees a minute are cut down in the Amazon alone. That is 7 football fields a minute!

Average person consumes twice as much as 50 years ago.

In the past 50 years, humans have consumed more resources than in all previous history

It only takes about 6 weeks total to manufacture, fill, sell, recycle, and then remanufacture an aluminum beverage can

More than 2 million people globally die prematurely every year due to outdoor and indoor air pollution

Tempi di degradazione (non biodegradazione)

Sacchetti di plastica: 100-400

Newspaper (giornali)- 6 weeks

Aluminium can (lattine)- 80-200 year

Orange Peel (buccia d’arancia)- 6 months

Cigarette Butt (filtri di sigarette)- 10-50 years

Foamed plastic cup (bicchiere di plastic)- 50 years

Leather (pelle)- 50 years

Wool sock (calzino di lana)- 1-5 years

Dal national geografhic:
Le 2 persone piu ricche del mondo hanno piu soldi del PIL complessivo dei 45 paesi piu poveri.

E’ evidente che il principale problema dell’umanita nel prossimo secolo sara’ come migliorare la qualita della vita…senza nel fratempo distruggere completamente l’ambiente. Edward O. Wilson biologo.

Un sacchetto di plastica si fabbrica in un secolo, si usa per 20 minuti e si degrada in 100-400 anni