Environmental Poster

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STEP ONE PICK  A FACT:

• • Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours.
  • During the time it takes you to read this sentence, 50,000 12-ounce aluminum cans are made.
  • Only 1% of the world’s water supply is usable, 97% are the oceans and 2% is frozen (for now).

• • We consume over 80 trillion aluminum cans every year.

• • Every day, American businesses generate enough paper to circle the earth 20 times!

• • Each year, Americans throw away 25 trillion Styrofoam cups.

• • Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees (Im guessing its about the same for more major papers Sunday editions).

• • Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour, most of which are thrown away!

• • Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year.

• • A modern glass bottle takes 4000 years or more to decompose.

• • The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world’s people generate 40% of the world’s waste.

• • One drip per second from a faucet wastes 540 gallons of water a year.
  • On average, ONE supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags per year!
  • The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.

• A modern glass bottle takes 4000 years or more to decompose
• More than 20,000,000 Hershey’s Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of tinfoil. All that foil is recyclable!

STEP TWO OPEN ILLUSTRATOR + DESIGN POSTER

Create a new blank document 13×19 It can be portrait or landscape it’s up to you.

Make sure you select the proper fonts from www.Adobefonts.com and use them in your design.  NO SYSTEM FONTS!!!!  NO MYRIAD PRO

Pay close attention to color and placement of you are.  Does it read well?

You can do a google search, create your own vector art using the pen tool or image trace or use vecteezy.com to gather the resources you need to make a strong design.  You can not use any photographs or copy and paste any images from online without converting them to vector.  Everything must have outlined.