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The United States is one of the biggest paper consumers in the world. Between 1990 and 2002, paper consumption in the United States increased from 84.9 million tons to 97.3 million tons. In 2006, there were approximately 450 paper mills in the United States, accounting for $68 billion. [1]
Paper waste accounts for up to 40% of total waste produced in the United States each year, which adds up to 71.6 million tons of paper waste per year in the United States alone. [30] The average office worker in the US prints 31 pages every day. [31] Americans also use in the order of 16 billion paper cups per year.
In the United States the pulp and paper industry released about 79, 000 tonnes or about 5% of all industrial pollutant releases in 2015 [14] [13] Of this total waste released by the pulp and paper industry in the U.S., 66% was released into the air, 10% into water and 24% onto land whereas in Canada, most of the waste (96%) was released into ...
The Story of Stuff has been subject to public discussion, especially after The New York Times published a front-page article about the video on May 10, 2009. [20] Even before The New York Times article, The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook pointed to The Story of Stuff as a successful portrayal of the problems with the consumption cycle, [21] and Greyson (2008) says it is an engaging attempt ...
The overwhelming majority — more than 90% by some estimates — of US toilet paper consumption comes from domestic factories. Most of the rest comes from Canada and Mexico, which means it most ...
The pulp and paper industry is the fifth largest consumer of energy, accounting for 4% of all the world’s energy use. The share of the paper in municipal solid waste by weight is 35%." [8] In 2003, the International Institute for Environment and Development noted that "There are two radically opposing views on [paper] consumption.
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Based on the 2010 United States federal budget, total national debt will grow to nearly 100% of GDP, versus a level of approximately 80% in early 2009. [374] The White House estimates that the government's tab for servicing the debt will exceed $700 billion a year in 2019, [375] up from $202 billion in 2009. [376]