Earth Day
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