Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait exhibit by Chris Jordan
- 200,000 packs of cigarettes, equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking every six months.
- 170,000 disposable Energizer batteries, equal to fifteen minutes of Energizer battery production.
- 9 million wooden ABC blocks, equal to the number of American children with no health insurance coverage in 2007.
- 8 million toothpicks, equal to the number of trees harvested in the US every month to make the paper for mail order catalogs.
- 2 million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.
- 11,000 jet trails, equal to the number of commercial flights in the US every eight hours.
- 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day.
- 1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags, the number used in the US every hour.
- 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.
- 65,000 cigarettes, equal to the number of American teenagers under age eighteen who become addicted to cigarettes every month.
- 213,000 Vicodin pills, equal to the number of emergency room visits yearly in the US related to misuse or abuse of prescription pain killers.
- 29,569 handguns, equal to the number of gun-related deaths in the US in 2004.
- 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the US every five seconds.
- 24,000 logos from the GMC Yukon Denali, equal to six weeks of sales of that model SUV in 2004.
- 2.3 million folded prison uniforms, equal to the number of Americans incarcerated in 2005.
- 30,000 reams of office paper, or 15 million sheets, equal to the amount of office paper used in the US every five minutes.
- 3.6 million tire valve caps, one for each new SUV sold in the US in 2004.
- 125,000 one-hundred dollar bills ($12.5 million), the amount our government spends every hour on the war in Iraq.
- 75,000 shipping containers, the number of containers processed through American ports every day.