In the course of a lifetime, a human being will consume or use:

1,277,043 gallons of water / 31,350 gallons of gas / 29,700 lbs of garbage / 3,796 diapers (1,898 pints of crude oil, 715 lbs of plastic, 4.5 trees) / 13.056 pints of milk / 2.5 tons of beef or 5 average-sized cows / 1.7 tons of pork or 6 150 lb pigs / 2.3 tons of chicken or 1,423 chickens / 1.3 tons of eggs or 19.826 eggs / 9,917 lbs of potatoes or 20,000 potatoes / 4,376 loaves of bread or 87,000 slices / 5,542 hot dogs / 14,598 candy bars or 12 cart fulls (this adds 1,056 lbs to a person)/ 11,196 apples / 5,067 bananas / 12,888 oranges / 43,371 cans of soda / 28,433 showers / 700,000 gallons of water / 156 toothbrushes / 389 tubes of toothpaste / 656 bars of soap / 198 bottles of shampoo / 272 sticks of deodorant / 35 bottles of hair styling gel / 37 bottles of perfume / 50 tubes of lipstick / 567,575 gallons of sewage / 64 tons of aluminum and plastic from bottles/cans / 68 lbs of clothes thrown away/year / 48 new pieces of clothes/year / $1,000 on clothes/year / $52,972 spent on clothing (men) / 35 billion loads of laundry/year / 560 gallons of water / 13,248 beers / 942 bottles of wine / 5 refrigerators / 7 air conditioners / 10 TVs / 15 computers / 8 microwaves / 7 washing machines / 12.5 years of TV watched / 22,000 kilowatts of electricity from TV watching / 412 books / 5,054 newspapers / 627,000 miles traveled in a lifetime.

These statistics are via the Wildlife Conservation Society's "The Human Footprint" project. Numbers based on the average American living approximately 78 years. Amazingly, the average infant in the U.S. produces as much carbon dioxide as a Tanzanian would produce over their entire lives. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!