Running the Numbers

Nine million American children have no health insurance coverage in 2007.

Plastic Bottles,
Two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.

Cigarettes,
65,000 American teenagers under age eighteen becomes addicted to cigarettes every month.

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

Pain Killers,
213,000 the number of emergency room visits yearly in the US related to misuse or abuse of prescription pain killers.

Handguns,
29,569 handguns, equal to the number of gun-related deaths in the US in 2004.

Paper Bags,
1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags are used in the US every hour.

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

Prison,
2.3 million Americans incarcerated in 2005.

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

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

Ben Franklin, 2007
8.5 feet wide by 10.5 feet tall in three horizontal panels
125,000 one-hundred dollar bills ($12.5 million), the amount our government spends every hour on the war in Iraq.