World Environment Day being observed today

The ‘World Environment Day’ is being observed today globally to spread worldwide awareness on environmental issues.

The Day is celebrated every year on 5th June since 1974. Almost over 150 countries participate each year in the event to take action on significant environmental challenges the planet faces.

The theme for this year’s World Environment Day is ‘biodiversity’, a call for action to synergize global efforts to combat the species loss and degradation of the natural world.

There are a lot of things that we do not pay attention to or close our eyes to. There are a few interesting environmental awareness facts that you must read to realize the importance of environmental issues and how has a human effected it:

1) The United States is the no. 1 trash-producing country in the world.

2) Andorra is a country that produces the least trash in the world.

3) China tops the list of countries that produces the most plastic in the world.

4) Around 25,000 trees are cut down each day just to produce toilet paper.

5) Approximately 5 million tones of oil produced in the world each year end up in the ocean.

6) Every year, an estimated 2.2 billion tons of waste is dumped in our oceans.

7) A glass bottle can take 4000 years to decompose.

8) The world uses 160,000 plastic bags every second.

9) Throwing plastic materials in the ocean kill around 1 million sea creatures annually.

10) Early exposure to environmental risks contributes to childhood cancers.