http://www.geektieguy.com/2007/01/26/try-this-search-on-google-i-promise-youll-be-surprised/ News and views from the geek tie guy. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:17:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geektieguy.com/2007/01/26/try-this-search-on-google-i-promise-youll-be-surprised/comment-page-1/#comment-7500 Bill Scarvie Wed, 21 May 2008 16:43:40 +0000 http://www.geektieguy.com/2007/01/26/try-this-search-on-google-i-promise-youll-be-surprised/#comment-7500 This is an eye opener. Now let's take it to scale. Go to the photographer Chris Jordan's website, www.chrisjordan.com, and click on the "By the Numbers" link. Scroll down and you will find an image entitled "Cans, Seurat, 2007" that depicts the number of soda cans emptied every 30 seconds. Using your calculation of 21.333 cans thrown away equals a gallon of gas, the volume of gas consumed every 30 seconds is 4,969 gallons. I don't have access to recycling numbers, but let's say we recycle 50% of all cans consumed. That's still an astonishing 4,969 gallons a minute, and at nearly $4 a gallon, we're throwing away nearly $20,000 a minute. Be sure you spend enough time at Chris's site to look at all his images. The scale of waste will further blow your mind. I know him well enough to have faith in his research. This is an eye opener. Now let’s take it to scale. Go to the photographer Chris Jordan’s website, http://www.chrisjordan.com, and click on the “By the Numbers” link. Scroll down and you will find an image entitled “Cans, Seurat, 2007″ that depicts the number of soda cans emptied every 30 seconds. Using your calculation of 21.333 cans thrown away equals a gallon of gas, the volume of gas consumed every 30 seconds is 4,969 gallons. I don’t have access to recycling numbers, but let’s say we recycle 50% of all cans consumed. That’s still an astonishing 4,969 gallons a minute, and at nearly $4 a gallon, we’re throwing away nearly $20,000 a minute.
Be sure you spend enough time at Chris’s site to look at all his images. The scale of waste will further blow your mind. I know him well enough to have faith in his research.

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