Labels:text | electronics | screenshot | display OCR: Just A Minute! Page 74 * An economical as well environmental idea is recycling paper. This prac- tice saves 3 cubic yards of landfill and $50.00 in disposal costs for every ton of paper recycled. Recycling paper stops 60 pounds of air pollution per one ton and saves 17 trees, 7,000 to 24,000 gallons of water and 4, 100 kilowatt hours of energy. So take a minute and recycle. * Over 1,500 people each day will be told they have diabetes. 20 percent of all Americans over the age of 55 are diabetes. * On average, each employer spends $820 per employee for holiday benefits. * * A business owner works on average 52.5 hours a week whereas an employee works on average 43.5 hours per week. In 1986 12 percent of the U.S. population were over 60 and in the year 2020 it is expected that 20 percent of the population will be over 60. * A woman who is uninsured on average spends 1.9 days in the hospital each year. Whereas the woman insured spend, on average 2.3 days in the hospital each year. * At the end of each day, about 22 percent females and 16 percent males feel stressed. * The average American drives 10, 000 miles a year * In New York City the average time spent waiting for a taxi is 5 minutes * Average person, eating at home, spends 6 years of their life eating.
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