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Green Kids Toys: By The Numbers
- 5 billion: The number of batteries Americans purchase each year.
- 146,000: Tons of battery waste those 5 billion batteries leave behind each year.
- 25 percent: the percentage of total pesticide production each year that is used on conventional cotton crops.
- 6: The number of phthalate plasticizers banned from children’s toys by the European Union in 1999. This legislation became mandatory in 2006.
Sources: Children's Health Environmental Coalition, EcoChoices,
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