The production of disposable wooden chopsticks consumes two million cubic meters (70.6 million cubic feet) of timber each year, the ministry said.

The production of lithium grease consumes a significant amount of castor oil.

Before the war, when synthetic rubber was not yet good enough to make tires, the monthly production of hard-rubber hair combs consumed enough rubber to outfit 375 six-wheel Army trucks with tires.

Whatever productions made by the farmer could not be consume by the local market and the prices sometimes goes down considerably.

The production of e-books does not consume paper and ink.

A 2002 report suggested that the production of ammonia consumes about 5% of global natural gas consumption, which is somewhat under 2% of world energy production.

The production of new paper from raw wood pulp consumes vast amounts of energy, the production of which in itself causes environmental pollution and adds to the Greenhouse Effect.

The production of ethylenediammonium diiodide, provided as a nutritional supplement for livestock, consumes a large fraction of available iodine.

For instance, China's coal-based production of ammonia, required for fertilizer and textile manufacture, consumes 42 times more water than natural-gas-based ammonia production in the First World.

The production of a single private car consumes the sort of natural resources which could keep a famine threatened village in the Third World going for months.