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We use 64,000 tons of newsprint a year and produce almost 14 billion pages.

Each day, we use approximately 350 gallons of color and black ink. Ink weighs 8.1 pounds per gallon, which equates to 2,835 pounds per day.

If one day's issues of The Seattle Times (about 68 pages each) were stacked in one pile, the pile would reach almost 5,000 feet upward — equivalent to more than eight Space Needles piled on top of each other.

The pages from any average daily 68-page issue of The Seattle Times would span 3,090 miles — equivalent to the mileage between Seattle and New York.

We recycle 95% of all solid waste generated in our buildings, including paper, film, and printing plates.

Each of our printing presses weighs 908 tons — the weight of 125 jumbo-sized African elephants.

The weight of the major structural steel in our North Creek facility is 3,000 tons (six million pounds) - about the same heft as 6,000 Seattle Seahawk defensive lines.

The North Creek facility is 64 feet at the tallest point — as high as the Great Sphinx pyramid in Egypt.

A full roll of newsprint measures 50 inches in diameter, weighs about 2,700 pounds, and is over eleven miles long.

The newsprint warehouse has a capacity to store 2,900 rolls — 32,000 miles in all. You'd have to drive from Seattle to Spokane 107 times to equal that distance.