To encourage tree plantation drive

1. Amazing Facts of Trees

2. Trees are the longest living organism on the Earth.
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3. A mature leafy tree produces oxygen for ten people to inhale
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in a year

4. One acre of trees can remove up to 2.6 tones of Carbon-
di-oxide each year

5. No t
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disease or people

6. An average tree absorbs 2000 liters of water every year.

7. The entire tree grows from the top and not from the
bottom

8. Tree leaves remove tiny particles of soot, dust which
otherwise damages human lungs.

9. Planting 30 trees in a year offsets green house gases
from home and car.

10. One tree filters up to 27 kg of pollutants from air.

11. The age of a tree can be calculated by its rings
rings.

12. Trees absorb 90% of the nutrition from atmosphere
and 10% from soil.

13. An average sized tree can provide wood
for 1, 70,000 pencils
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14. 14 billion pencils are made by cutting 82 000 trees
82,000
every year

15. A single edition of Daily News paper uses wood
from 500 trees to make the paper.
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16. 850 million trees are cut down for making 50 million tons of paper

17. 25, 00 000
25 00,000 trees are used for publishing books
books.

18. Every ton of recycled paper saves 380 gallons of oil

19. We save 17 trees when we recycle every ton of paper.
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20. Each vegetarian saves one acre of trees.
Follow vegetarian diet.

21. Every book we read was once a tree.
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22. Plant a tree for every book you read
read.

23. Nurture Trees to Nourish Birds, animals and insects.
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24. Nurture Trees to Nourish Water and Air.

25. Nurture Trees to Nourish Earth
Earth.
KAUSALYA JANARDANAN
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