How to a SUSTAINABLE St. John’s University
resident:
- CFL(CompactFluorescentLight) bulbs use 70% less energy and last
10x longer than traditional bulbs.
- Turn off lights when not needed, even for a few minutes.
- Make use of natural daylight.
- Unplug your chargers when you are not charging phones, PDAs,
digital cameras and computers.
- Use power strips to switch off televisions, home theater
equipment and stereos when not in use.
- Enable the “sleep mode” on your computer, allowing it to use
less power during periods of inactivity.
- Keep A/C and heat running 'low' or 'off' as much as
possible.
- Use the appliances like blow-dryers less often and for a
shorter period of time.
- When doing laundry, wash with cold water and a full
machine.
- Clean the lint filter in the dryer after each use.
- Take the stairs instead of the elevator.
Did you know?
- Americans throw away enough glass jars and bottles to fill the
former World Trade Towers each month.
- The average American throws 3 – 5 pounds of trash away daily.
That is one billion pounds of waste each day in the U.S.
- Americans make up 5% of the worlds population and create 50% of
the world’s garbage.
- Americans throw away enough office and writing paper annually
to build a wall twelve feet high stretching from Los Angeles to New
York City.
- Every glass bottle recycled saves enough energy to light a 100
watt bulb for four hours.
- You produce approximately 4.4 pounds of solid waste each day .
This adds up to almost 60 tons of trash over the course of your
lifetime.
- You use paper more than any other material. During your
lifetime, you use more than 53,500 pounds (27 tons) of paper. Paper
accounts for more than 25 percent of all landfill waste. By
recycling only half of your total usage, you would save 221 trees,
91,000 gallons of water, and 1,027 gallons of oil – all used in the
production of new paper.
- It takes approximately 83 trees to produce the junk-mail that
you will receive in your lifetime. You will waste 8 full months of
your life opening this junk-mail.
Did you know …?
- The junk mail Americans receive in one day could provide heat
for over 240,000 homes.
- In the United States the average person throws away 600 times
their weight in garbage during their lifetime.
- By recycling all of your waste newsprint,
cardboard, glass, and metal, you would reduce carbon dioxide
emissions by 63,750 pounds during your lifetime. This emissions
savings is equivalent to the amount of carbon dioxide produced by
your car over a period of 5 years.
- Over the course of your lifetime, you will throw out
approximately 33,750 beverage containers that could have been
recycled. Of those, 28,050 will have been aluminum cans.
- Throwing away a single aluminum can versus recycling it, is
like pouring out six ounces of gasoline. Last year, Americans
recycled enough aluminum cans to conserve the energy equivalent of
more than 15 million barrels of oil.
- With every ton of paper you recycle you save:
-17 trees
-
79 gallons of oil
-7,000 gallons of water
-41,000 kilowatts of energy
-60 gallons of air pollution
-3 cubic yards of landfill space
- Americans throw away enough glass jars and bottles to fill the
former World Trade Towers each month.
Residence Dorm Rooms:
- Behind the door of every room there is a
sign explaining St. John's University's reycling, energy,
and water conservation policies.
- Residents of each room are given a recycle bin during move in.
Small blue recycle bins are given to students in corridor style
living accomodations, while large green bins are given to students
in suite style accomodations
