what's your carbon footprint? Options

[Mommy]

Let's see how we all live. Some of us act like we are super eco-friendly and others act like we don't give a fuck about the environment. Be honest with the data you input. Let's see where this goes.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/custom...026478.htmlpage

[kcroxyoursox]

45,290. I guessed on Jason's truck stuff since he drives for work and it said the more-used car.

I read something the other day that said aluminum is the only material in the world that's 100% recyclable. Throwing away one aluminum can, instead of recycling it, is the equivalent of pouring out something like 6 gallons of gasoline.

[impala454]

Throwing away one aluminum can, instead of recycling it, is the equivalent of pouring out something like 6 gallons of gasoline.

No offense, but these kind of statements are dumb. I'm hearing these more and more with all this green crap, and the correlations being drawn are getting absurd. I heard someone on the radio the other day say that one cup of coffee takes the equivalent of like 3,000 gallons of water for its "full life cycle". I also keep hearing the "if everyone would just replace X with Y, it'd be the equivalent of taking Z million cars off the road." Why these things have to be marketed in such a way is beyond me. Just the same ol' "big, impressive numbers" are what get people's attention thing again I guess.