The photographer Chris Jordan has up a series of photographs on American consumption, heres some of the numbers.

8,000,000 Trees every month for mail-order catalogs -

Annually: 96,000,000

426,000 Cell phones retired every day -

Annually: 155,490,000

170,000 Energizer batteries every fifteen minutes -

Annually: 5,956,800,000

1,140,000 Paper bags every hour -

Annually: 9,986,400,000

410,000 Paper cups every fifteen minutes -

Annually: 14,366,400,000

106,000 Aluminum cans every THIRTY SECONDS -

Annually: 111,427,200,000 (half are recycled)

2,000,000 Plastic Bottles every FIVE MINUTES -

Annually: 210,240,000,000

60,000 Plastic bags every FIVE SECONDS -

Annually: 378,432,000,000

These are only statistics, to see them for yourself go look at Chris Jordan's gallery HERE.