DID YOU KNOW ?

How long does it takes to decompose ?
Banana peel - 2 months
Aluminium cans - 350 years
Plastic bags - 400 years
Leather glove - 4o years
Glass bottle - maybe never, undetermined

TAK PERCAYA ?

20 percent
of the oxygen needed by the world come from the Amazon.

BETWEEN FEEDING THE MASSES AND SAVING THE EARTH

It's easy said than done. We can continously berating the authority about saving the earth, but it always fall on deaf ears. They always complain about the budget. The money to feed the masses, the subsidies for the skyrocketing fuel price. This ackward situation sometimes can overthrow a ruling government. We see increased tension in Bangkok and Jakarta, when people take to the street to protest the high cost of living.
Crops for human consumption like maize / corn are also now being used for alternative fuel. Sugar cane cultivation is also on the increase for producing ethanol. Now people has to pay more for this two product as farmers are more interested in supplying the new industry.
While we are proud to soften the impact of oil price, using alternative fuel, at the same time we are paying more for food, taking away the right of the poor to live. At of course by opening new plantation, more forest will be cleared and eventually increase global warming.(ends)

I EAT RUBBISH !

Barge that collects rubbish that floats down the Thames River, London, England. Millennium Bridge, Globe Theatre and Tate Modern in the background."This device restores vitality to the Thames by collecting 40 tonnes of rubbish every year. That's the equivalent to 800,000 plastic bottles."

DID YOU KNOW ?

For every ton of paper we recycle, we can save 17 trees from being cut down to make new paper.

NARGIS AFTERMATH

According to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) report, up to 90 percent of the schools have been damaged or destroyed by Cyclone Nargis, totaling some 3,000 primary schools and affecting more than 500,000 students in the Irrawaddy delta and Rangoon division.

UNICEF said it plans to set up temporary tents for school children and provide "child friendly spaces" for a safe and secure environment in many of the resettlement areas.But there are too many children still in of need life-saving relief in Burma, says the UNICEF report.

Meanwhile the government of Burma has announced the reopening of schools in seven townships in cyclone hit Irrawaddy division have been postponed by a month, while in the rest of the country schools will open in June.

But for some children, schools and education is no longer a priority as their main concern now is survival.What they need now is food.(MIZZIMA)

DID YOU KNOW

The energy saved by recycling 1 aluminium drink can is enough to run a television for three hours