American consumption statistics

These pictures show the American consumption statistics.
Ie each image shows a certain amount of consumed items.

10,000 jet trails, equal to the number of domestic commercial passenger flights daily in the US.






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






213000 pills Vicodin - consumed annually in the United States antidepressants






29,569 pistols, equal to the number of weapon-related deaths in the US in 2004.






1.14 million bags from supermarkets and wrapping paper used in the US every hour.






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






24,000 posters from Yukon automaker Denali GMC, equal to six-week sales of the model SUV in 2004.




2.3 million folded prison uniforms, equal to the number of Americans who were imprisoned in 2005.






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






30,000 stacks office paper, or 15 million sheets used in the United States every five minutes.




3.6 million caps on spools, one for each of the new SUV, sold in the US in 2004.






125,000 packs stodollorovyh banknotes (12.5 million dollars), the amount that the US government spends every hour on the war in Iraq.






75,000 shipping containers that pass through US ports every day.


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