The danger of plasic bags

After reading this maybe you'll think twice before taking or buying a new plastic bag.Data released by the United States Environmental Protection Agency shows that somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year.Less than 1% of bags are recycled. It cost more to recycle a bag than to produce a new one ($4,000 to process and recycle 1 ton of plastic bags, which can then be sold on the commodities market for $32).
A study in 2004 showed oceangoing vessels together dumped 8 million pounds of plastic annually. The real reason that the world's landfills weren't overflowing with plastic was because most of it ended up in an ocean-fill.


Some information
-Plastic bags have been found floating north of the Arctic Circle near Spitzbergen, and as far south as the Falkland Islands
-Plastic bags account for over 10 percent of the debris washed up on the U.S. coastline
-Plastic bags photodegrade:over time they break down into smaller, more toxic petro-polymers
As a consequence microscopic particles can enter the food chain, nearly 200 different species of sea life including whales, dolphins, seals and turtles die due to plastic bags.They die after ingesting plastic bags which they mistake for food






If we use a cloth bag,we can save 6 bags a week, that's 24 bags a month, that's 288 bags a year -> 22,176 bags in an average life time.


If just 1 out of 5 people in our country did this we would save 1,330,560,000,000 bags over our life time.

Bangladesh has banned plastic bags.
China has banned free plastic bags.
Ireland took the lead in Europe, taxing plastic bags in 2002 and have now reduced plastic bag consumption by 90%.
Israel, Canada, western India, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Taiwan, and Singapore have also banned or are moving toward banning the plastic bag



On March 27th 2007, San Francisco becomes first U.S. city to ban plastic bags
www.npr.org (National Public Radio)

Plastic shopping bags are made from polyethylene: a thermoplastic made from oil
Reducing plastic bags will decrease foreign oil dependency.

China will save 37 million barrels of oil each year due to their ban of free plastic bags.
CNN.com/asia January 9, 2008

How rich are you ?

Ever wondered where do you rank among the world’s richest people? Global Rich List can tell you. It gives you a fairly good estimate of where you rank based on your early income. The calculations are based on the income figures from the World Bank Development Research Group.
If you feel poor simply because you can’t afford a bigger house or that fancy car you always wanted then give it a try. It’ll make you feel better. Just enter your annual income into the box and see how rich u are!
Go to www.globalrichlist.com

Japanese IQ hiring test

I just received from a friend of mine a really interesting and challenging test. This is the Japanese IQ hiring test, an IQ test used in Japan for hiring employees in the IT sector. An average person should complete it in about 15 minutes. To start playing click on the image below.
Instructions:

To START click on the Blue circle

1. Maximum of two people can go on the float.
2. Father cannot be with any of his daughters without the mother being present.
3. Mother cannot be with any of her sons without the father being present.
4. The prisoner cannot be alone (without the policeman) with any member of the family.
5. Only the policeman and parents can drive the float.

Click on the person to load and unload.
To cross the river, click on the red head on a pole on the other bank.
Your objective is to move all the people to the other side of the river.

Good luck!!

Press here to start playing!