Matching Pairs EnvironmentOnline version Read match and order by Mat Paredes 1 Recycling one aluminum can 2 About 65% of household trash 3 Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean 4 Out of every $10 we spend buying things, 5 One quart (> one liter) of motor oil that is not disposed of correctly 6 The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is made up of packaging. kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year ! can pollute up to 2,000,000 gallons (7.6 million) of fresh water. $1 (10%) goes for packaging that we then throw away. is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years. saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours.