Puzzle for January 18, 2010

The Washington Post had an interesting article about "Junking Junk Mail."

In the article they make the following two comparisions:

Adults receive an average of 41 pounds of junk mail per year (which)consumes 100 million trees.

Catalog Choice says 19 billion catalogues are sent to U.S. consumers each year, at a cost of 53 million trees and 5.2 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions -- the equivalent of exhaust from 2 million cars.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 44 percent of the unsolicited mail we receive heads to landfills unread.

How much do all those catalogs weigh?

Does that number "mean anything" to us? Can we convert it into a number we'd understand?

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