Ski Club Freshtracks
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Respect the Mountain
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Environment
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Safety
- 110 glaciers have disappeared from Glacier National Park, Montana, in the last 150 years
- The UK with 1% of the world's population produces 2.3% of the world's C02
- The EU would save 1 million barrels of imported oil every day if every car were a Toyota Prius
- You can power a TV for 3 hours using the energy saved by recycling one aluminium can
- Orange peel takes up to two years to break down
- A plastic water bottle can take 1,000 years to degrade
- 58% of car trips in the UK are under 5 miles and 25% are less than 2 miles
- 90% of badly polluting vehicles can be re-tuned within 15 minutes
- Snow and ice cover in the eastern Himalayas has shrunk by 30% since the 1970s
- Recycling one glass bottle saves enough energy to light a 100-watt light bulb for 4 hours
- 4% of Brits have deliberately chosen not to fly somewhere in order to reduce carbon emissions
- The volume of waste produced in the UK in one hour would fill the Albert Hall
- By turning down your thermostat by 1o centigrade, or using one hour less heating a day, you could cut your fuel bills by 10%
- The global net forest loss every day is 20,000 hectares. That’s an area twice the size of Paris
- It is predicted that within 50 years no European resorts below 1,200m will be able to operate due to rising temperature
- Cavity wall insulation reduces heat loss through walls by up to 60%, and can save up to 40% on heating bills
- 570 species of insect have been found throughout London’s underground network. The ‘green corridor’ is also home to bats, badgers, water voles and grass snakes
- Recycling a one-foot high stack of newspapers saves enough electricity to heat a home for 17 hours
- Cigarette butts take up to five years to disintegrate, which is contributing to the 'alleged' increase in lung cancer cases amongst marmots and chamois!
- 50-64. The age group with the highest carbon footprint in the UK. At 13.52 tones of CO2 per capita/year, it’s almost 15% higher than the average
