I don't like people who, to prove how large something is,
tell you how many times these things laid end-to-end would go around the earth.
If I ever meet someone who does that,
I will snub them.
Do this search on Google, "laid end to end would circle the earth"
and you will find out:
More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured in the US annually. If these
were laid end to end, they would circle the earth nine times.
If 75 billion tortillas were laid end to end, they would stretch across
the US 1178 times or circle the earth 338 times.
The IRS sends out 8 billion pages of forms and instructions
each year which, if laid end to end, would circle the earth 28 times.
YKK corp. annually produces fasteners for jeans which, if laid end to end, would stretch 480,000 kilometers, sufficient to circle the Earth 12 times.
If every Barbie doll ever manufactured were laid end to end, they would circle the earth three-and-one-half times.
Laid end-to-end, California's unrecycled beverage containers would circle the earth nearly seven times.
The length of the cables used in the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge bridge totals 300,000 kilometers. That's enough to circle the earth 7.5 times!
The international beer market will soon use more than 302 billion containers a year, which - if laid end-to-end - would circle the earth more than 1,050 times!
If all of the strands that make up the cables of the George Washington Bridge were laid end to end, they would circle the earth four times.
Trex co. estimates that it takes 2.7 billion plastic grocery bags out of the waste stream each year, which if laid end to end, would circle the earth about 22 times.
A billion dollar bills laid end to end would circle the globe at the equator four times.
If you laid down a trillion dollars end to end, it would circle the earth 3,882 times!
If all the glass bottles and jars that get recycled in Canada each year were laid end to end, they would circle the earth more than four times
Since 1917, U.S. Gypsum Co. has produced enough Sheetrock to circle the equator 551 times.
All the Spam cans ever produced would circle the earth almost 13 times.
Laid end to end, the sheets of paper used in personal computers each year would circle the Earth over 800 times.
Not much bigger than a fist, the human heart beats 100,000 times each day, sending about 2,000 gallons of blood coursing through vessels, which, laid end-to-end, would be long enough to circle the earth more than twice.
BUT another site says "If the blood vessels of an adult were lined up end to end, they would circle the
equator four times!"
Who's right? I want to stretch these end-to-end people end from end to find out.
IN CONCLUSION
The claims are too dull to check their veracity.
The recycling business is most prone to use this gimmick. I spared you so many finds! Recyclers want you to picture garbage and feel really awed and guilty. But the end-to-end bit is tired.
The people who make these stats really need to get laid end to end.
