Monday, March 06, 2006

Muffling the Lone Start State

Each weekday, an office at Carleton publishes a short bulletin of announcements and classified ads whch also includes a "Useless Fact." Friday's fact goes in the "Yes, Please, and Soon" category:
Every year the United States makes enough plastic flim to shrinkwrap the state of Texas.

1 Comments:

Jim said...

Recently I heard if I heard right that one third of the world's lumber is tied up in shipping pallets. Could that be why we need so much shrink wrap?

8:59 AM  

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