Overload leads to Waste

Here are various proclamations about wasted time, resources, and days; sad if even half true!

* Americans waste 9 million hours per day searching for misplaced items.
* The average adult spends 16 hours a year searching for lost keys.
* 80% of the items we file, we never look at again
* The average person spends 8 months of their life reading junk mail.
* 90 million trees are consumed each year to provide paper for junk mail.

Too Much Catalog Information

In this age of high-speed Internet connections, catalog companies in the U.S. annually mail more than 19 billion catalogs, consuming nearly four million tons of paper. The quality as well as availability of recycled paper has improved, but the majority of catalogers, among them J. Crew, J.C. Penney, and L.L. Bean, still use only virgin paper. What a waste, for everyone and everything.