Because One Day Doesn't Seem To Be Enough...November 19-25, 2009 is Use Less Stuff Week!

      

Rather than declining, that number has grown by 20%, to 6 million tons. Obviously, Use Less Stuff Day hasn't been a big enough event to get people into the conservation spirit. Starting this year, ULS is proclaiming the entire week before Thanksgiving (November 19-25, 2009) to be Use Less Stuff Week.

According to Bob Lilienfeld, Editor of The ULS Report, here are some reasons why people need to be more aware of waste during the holiday period:

    --  Between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, Americans generate 25% more
        waste per week than during the rest of the year. This creates an
        additional 1.2 million tons per week, or an extra 6 million tons, for
        the holiday season.

    --  According to the USDA, Americans throw away 25% of food purchased -- 52
        billion pounds each year, or 170 pounds per person! When you add in food
        waste from restaurants, retailers and other commercial purveyors, the
        University of Arizona estimates that the real amount wasted is closer to
        50%.

    --  If every American family reduced holiday gasoline consumption by just
        one gallon a week, the result would be an annual reduction in greenhouse
        gas production of 13 billion pounds (6.5 million tons) of carbon
        dioxide.

    --  If American households reduced their holiday ribbon usage by just 2
        feet, the result would be a savings of 50,000 miles, enough ribbon to
        circle the Earth twice.

Holiday tips for saving both environmental and economic resources are available in the current issue of The ULS Report, at www.use-less-stuff.com. The ULS web site is rated #1 by Yahoo! and MSN for searches relating to waste prevention and source reduction.

    Contact: Bob Lilienfeld
    Phone: 248-726-9729
    E-mail: bob@use-less-stuff.com

SOURCE The ULS Report