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Global Environmental Trends: Production and Consumption

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Global Environmental Trends: Production and Consumption

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    1. Global Environmental Trends: Production and Consumption World Resources Institute http://www.wri.org/wri/

    2. What Do Industrial Economies Use? Primary Contributions to the Total Material Requirements of Selected Economies, 1991 Fossil fuels and the hidden material flows associated with them make up a large percentage -- between 26 and 46 percent -- of the total materials used in the most industrialized countries. For more information see http://www.wri.org/wri/trends/wasting.html. Source: A. Adriaanse et al., Resource Flows, The Material Basis of Industrial Economies, a joint publication of the World Resources Institute (WRI); the Wuppertal Institute; the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning, and the Environment; and the National Institute for Environmental Studies (WRI, Washington, D.C., 1997), p. 12.Primary Contributions to the Total Material Requirements of Selected Economies, 1991 Fossil fuels and the hidden material flows associated with them make up a large percentage -- between 26 and 46 percent -- of the total materials used in the most industrialized countries. For more information see http://www.wri.org/wri/trends/wasting.html. Source: A. Adriaanse et al., Resource Flows, The Material Basis of Industrial Economies, a joint publication of the World Resources Institute (WRI); the Wuppertal Institute; the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning, and the Environment; and the National Institute for Environmental Studies (WRI, Washington, D.C., 1997), p. 12.

    3. Paper Use is Growing Worldwide Annual Per Capita Paper and Paperboard Consumption Globlly, paper consumption has increased by a factor of 20 this century and has tripled over the past several decades. For more information see http://www.wri.org/wri/trends/paperwk.html. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), State of the World’s Forests 1997 (FAO, Rome, 1997), p. 191.Annual Per Capita Paper and Paperboard Consumption Globlly, paper consumption has increased by a factor of 20 this century and has tripled over the past several decades. For more information see http://www.wri.org/wri/trends/paperwk.html. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), State of the World’s Forests 1997 (FAO, Rome, 1997), p. 191.

    4. Paper Recycling: Rising Volume, Growing Importance Paper Recovery as a Percentage of Paper and Paperboard Production Between 1970 and 1994, worldwide paper recovery rates rose from 23 percent to 37 percent; at the same time, many countries have achieved considerably higher recovery rates. For more information see http://www.wri.org/wri/trends/paperwk.html. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), FAOSTAT Statistical Database. Available online at: http://www.fao.org (FAO, Rome, 1997).Paper Recovery as a Percentage of Paper and Paperboard Production Between 1970 and 1994, worldwide paper recovery rates rose from 23 percent to 37 percent; at the same time, many countries have achieved considerably higher recovery rates. For more information see http://www.wri.org/wri/trends/paperwk.html. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), FAOSTAT Statistical Database. Available online at: http://www.fao.org (FAO, Rome, 1997).

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