Environmental Protection Agency

April 22 is when it’s celebrated

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to watch 3 hours of television

The plastic garbage kills at least one million creatures in the ocean each year

Hayes built a national staff of 85 to premote events across the land

Denis Hayes took Earth Day international in 1990

About 200 million people in 141 countries participated in this event in 1990

Yearly there are 14,000,000,000 pounds of garbage thrown into the ocean