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.