• Approximately 20% of CRTs are comprised of lead, equivalent to between four and eight pounds per unit. Although newer, flat-screen monitors contain less lead, they use more mercury.
  
  — Earth 911
  
  
• Lead exposure causes brain damage in children and as little as one gram of airborne mercury deposited per year to a 20-acre lake is enough to maintain mercury contamination at a level where the fish are unsafe to eat.
  
  — Electronics TakeBack Coalition
  
  
• 31.9 million computer monitors were discarded in 2007 – both flat panel and CRTs.
  
  — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  
  
• When it comes to national enforcement of e-waste regulations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tracks only the disposal of cathode-ray tubes (CRTs), which represent less than 20% of all toxic e-waste being exported by unscrupulous companies in the U.S.
  
  — San Francisco Examiner
  
  
• 500 shipping containers with used computers reach Nigeria every month, cumulatively representing about 400,000 computers and monitors.
  
  — Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
  
  
• In Guiyu, a Chinese village where electronics exported from Western nations are disassembled for fragments of precious metals, more than 80% of the children have lead poisoning, the water is unsafe to drink, and the workers have extraordinarily high levels of toxic fire retardants in their bodies.
  
  — Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
  
  
• 46% of companies with established green plans have no manager in place to track and ensure the quality of those goals.
  
  — CIO Insight Green IT Survey
  
  
• 67% of companies have suffered one or more confidential data breaches within the past 12 months.
  
  — Enterprise Strategy Group
  
  
• U.S. corporations, governments and universities reported a record tally for the year of 558 consumer data breaches as of December 2008, involving more than 33,753,000 records, eclipsing 2007's 446 incidents.
  
  — Identity Theft Resource Center
  
  
• A data breach that results in the loss of 100,000 customer records can turn into a direct and immediate cost of $21.8 million. An employee who generates $1,000 in revenue per hour would have to work for 109 years in order to compensate for the loss.
  
  — Forrester Research
  
  
• 27% of data losses at business enterprises are a result of theft and 27% are from deliberate sabotage by employees.
  
  — Symantec Independent Study
  
  
• Stolen bank account information sells for between $10 and $1,000, while the average advertised stolen bank account balance is nearly $40,000.
  
  — “Report on the Underground Economy” from Symantec
  
  
• Most states that have information-breach-notification laws hold businesses liable for the security of non-public personal information, yet only 22 states apply the same requirements to their own government agencies.
  
  — Perimeter eSecurity Survey
  
  
• During the past two years, U.S. consumers replaced more than 2.1 million computers because of malware infections.
  
  — Consumer Reports
  
  
• 70% of employees will turn off company default PC power management settings.
  
  — Living Life Green
  
  
• Only 13% of CFOs say they are very confident that the knowledge and skills exist within their organizations to maintain core IT assets into the future.
  
  — “Safeguarding the Corporate IT Assets” from Micro Focus
  
  

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