Green Your Shopping Quiz

According to the World Watch Institute, a staggering 100 billion plastic bags are tossed out every year.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 80 million metric tons (88,184,905 tons) of methane are released globally each year by livestock including cattle, sheep and goats.

According to the National Corn Growers Association, almost 80 percent of harvested corn goes to feeding domestic and foreign livestock, poultry and fish.

According to the Council on Clean Air, only one-tenth of recyclable material is actually recycled; most products end up in landfills.

Don't buy more than you can chew! Approximately 42,000 tons (38,102 metric tons) of food are thrown into the garbage stream each year.

Eco-friendly cleaning products are one of the fastest growing green products. It's estimated that by 2013 they will corner 30 percent of the cleaning product market.

Americans discard 2,500,000 plastic bottles per hour.

Food packaging is 31 percent of landfill waste.

Bananas are grown in natural light, don't require energy-intensive hothouses and keep well enough to be transported hundreds of miles by boat.

The Clean Air Council estimates that 56 million tons (50,802,345 metric tons) of garbage goes into U.S. landfills each year, which is an average of 4.39 pounds (2 kilograms) of garbage per person, per day.

A bike is 10 times more energy efficient than a passenger car.

While conventional or organic cotton is certainly not the cleanest of fabrics when it comes to sustainability, it uses marginally less resources than paper or plastic during production.

Buy less meat. A United Nations report says livestock production contributes 18 percent of the greenhouse gases released into the environment by human activities each year.

CSA stands for community supported agriculture.

Square-foot gardens are mapped on a grid in raised beds or boxes.

Greenwashing is the term used to describe the marketing of products as green.

Green Seal was founded in 1989 to provide science-based standards of organic credibility in manufactured products.

Locavorism is the practice of buying food that is grown locally

Re-purposing plastic containers keeps them out of the waste stream.

A food mile is the distance food travels from where it was grown or raised to where it is purchased.