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Oil barrels, 2008

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Depicts 28,000 42-gallon barrels, the amount of oil consumed in the United States every two minutes (equal to the flow of a medium-sized river).

Light bulbs, 2008







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Depicts 320,000 light bulbs, equal to the number of kilowatt hours of electricity wasted in the United States every minute from inefficient residential electricity usage (inefficient wiring, computers in sleep mode, etc.).

Toothpicks, 2008






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Depicts one hundred million toothpicks, equal to the number of trees cut in the U.S. yearly to make the paper for junk mail.

Plastic cups, 2008

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Depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours.

Plastic bottles, 2007

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Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.

Jet trails, 2007

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Depicts 11,000 jet trails, equal to the number of commercial flights in the US every eight hours.

Cellphones, 2007

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Depicts 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day.

Paper bags, 2007

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Depicts 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags, the number used in the US every hour.

Aluminum cans, 2007

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Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.

Paper cups, 2008

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Depicts 410,000 paper cups, equal to the number of disposable hot-beverage paper cups used in the US every fifteen minutes.

Plastic bags, 2007

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Depicts 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the US every five seconds.

Office paper, 2007

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Depicts 30,000 reams of office paper, or 15 million sheets, equal to the amount of office paper used in the US every five minutes

Energizer, 2007

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Depicts 170,000 disposable Energizer batteries, equal to fifteen minutes of Energizer battery production.

If 170,000 batteries were depicted at their real size, the print would need to be 26x43 feet, as shown here. To depict one year of Energizer disposable battery production (six billion batteries) would require a print 26 feet high by 146 miles long.