The plan calls for recycling 25 percent of the eight million tons of residential solid waste thrown away each year.

In 2004, about 85 percent of the 210,000 tons of cotton produced was exported.

About 5 percent of the 17,000 tons is being separated for recycling.

But this amount represents only 1 percent of the estimated 400 tons that were shipped to Colombia.

Only 10 percent of the 143,000 tons is expected to be airlifted.

About 80 percent of the 30 million tons of cargo handled annually by Santos moves through private terminals.

"Corn accounted for 76 percent of the 1.02 million tons of ethanol produced" in 2005.

The company handles 82 percent of the more than 4,000 tons of air cargo that flows through Hong Kong every day.

More telling, less than 1 percent of the nearly three million tons of steel that Japan imported last year came from the United States.

The amount is about 4 percent of the 18,000 to 20,000 tons of the city's daily residential trash.