• If U.S. businesses reused as many PCs as the rest of the world it, would generate enough energy savings to power every household in Phoenix for an entire year.
  
  — Redemtech
  
  
• Some 35 million PCs will be dumped into landfills this year with little or no regard for their toxic content.
  
  — Gartner analyst Meike Escherich
  
  
• 13.5% of breaches came from subcontractors who lost or stole their clients' customer data.
  
  — Identity Theft Resource Center
  
  
• Between 20 million and 50 million tons of electronic waste are produced each year, but 75% of it disappears into illegal or improper disposal sites.
  
  — Greenpeace
  
  
• As little as 0.014 gram of mercury is enough to contaminate the fish in a 20-acre lake. The 300 million computers that have already been discarded contain enough mercury (about 0.5 gram each) to poison the Great Lakes eight times over.
  
  — Toxics Link
  
  
• If the estimated amount of e-waste generated every year would be put into containers on a train, it would go once around the world.
  
  — Greenpeace
  
  
• Businesses, governments and universities reported a record number of data breaches in the first half of this year, a 69% increase over the same period in 2007, driven by a spike in data thefts attributed to employees and contractors.
  
  — Identity Theft Resource Center
  
  
• 59% of businesses anticipate a major loss of information to occur once every five years.
  
  — Symantec
  
  
• Average spend on security defenses by companies and organizations has almost tripled during the past six years.
  
  — Information Security Breaches Survey
  
  
• The number of personal computers in use around the world has surpassed 1 billion and is expected to double by early 2014.
  
  — Gartner
  
  
• 45% of companies are either implementing or creating an overarching green-IT strategy to guide future purchasing and end-of-lifecycle considerations.
  
  — Forrester Research
  
  
• Costs associated with developing technology to cut carbon emissions could reach $2.9 trillion in 2050.
  
  — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  
  
• Identity theft was the top consumer complaint nationwide last year.
  
  — U.S. Federal Trade Commission
  
  
• 61% of marketing staff have lost, or had stolen, confidential customer data during the past 24 months and in 90% of these cases, the customer is never informed that their data has been lost or stolen.
  
  — StrongMail
  
  

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