By encouraging restaurant patrons to recycle food containers, the company has decreased its waste by about 30%, recovering one million tons of corrugated cardboard products alone in the past 10 years.
The European Union imports more than one million metric tons of U.S. wheat each year.
Mars has said that an extra one million metric tons, or 1.1 million short tons, of cocoa will be needed to satisfy global demand by 2020 if no serious efforts are put in place to increase productivity in nations such as Ivory Coast, where farmers are already turning to alternative crops such as rubber or abandoning their small holdings altogether.
Daily output, according to one source, was 2.0 million tons in June and 1.99 million tons in July.
The Japanese government estimated that the tsunami generated 25 million tons of rubble, but no one is sure how much of that washed into the ocean, or whether any debris stayed afloat.
Seventy percent of this debris is believed to have sunk offshore, but no one knows how much of the remaining 1.5 million tons are still floating in the Pacific Ocean.
This one plant, for example, will cut carbon pollution by 16 million tons each year when compared to a similar coal plant.
One more doubling of import demand and China will be wanting to import 600 million tons per year, about the total amount of coal exported by all exporting nations last year.
The purchase made Ispat one of the world's largest producers of direct-reduced iron, at 7 million tons a year.
Within the steel sector, one company that traders should keep an eye on is Nucor, a producer of about 25 million tons of steel annually, including hot- and cold-rolled steel, steel joists and metal buildings.
Replacing one million boilers with micro-CHP units by 2020 would cut emissions by about 2.1 million tons of CO2 by 2020.
Answer: C -- 250 million tons, says the EPA. That's more than 1, 000 times greater than one of the largest cruise ships in the world.
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