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All these houses are built from between 70 and 80 percent recycled material, stuff that was headed to the mulcher, the landfill, the burn pile.

You write the check, and instantly, it depreciates 30 percent.

After a year, you can't get insurance on everything you have in it, only on 70 percent.

Because, after all, within living memory, they were hunters and gatherers, living pretty much like our ancestors lived for maybe 99 percent of the human story.

Because there's 80 percent out there that really eats insects.

In fact, of all animals on Earth, of all animal species, 80 percent walks on six legs.

And if you look at the figures up there, it says that we have a third more mouths to feed, but we need an agricultural production increase of 70 percent.

Even if you don't like it, you'll have to get used to this because at the moment, 70 percent of all our agricultural land is being used to produce livestock.

And if you remember that we need to increase agricultural production by 70 percent, we're not going to make it that way.

Microscopy, the standard WHO procedure, reaches from 40 to 60 percent reliability.

And by just presenting the samples once more to the rats and looping those results back, we were able to increase case detection rates by over 30 percent.

In the US, only 15 percent of the total textile and garment waste that's generated each year ends up being donated or recycled in some way, which means that the other 85 percent of textile and garment waste end up in landfills every year.

Now, I want to put this into perspective, because I don't quite think that the 85 percent does the problem justice.

Because being able to extend the life of a garment by even only nine months reduces the waste and water impact that that garment has by 20 to 30 percent.

The environmental savings could be huge, and all we would have to do is start to shift more of our resources to start to produce more of these items using more natural fibers, like 100 percent organic cotton.

Currently, 10 to 20 percent of the harsh chemical dye that we use end up in water bodies that neighbor production hubs in developing nations.

Before the Great Migration began, 90 percent of all African Americans were living in the South.

For me, as a musician who deals with 99 percent of new music, it's very easy for me to say, "Oh yes, I like that piece.

Over 50 percent of managers are women these days, and in the 15 professions projected to grow the most in the next decade, all but two of them are dominated by women.

In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

So your 58 percent of mothers surveyed report feelings of loneliness.

In the process of preparing this, we looked at how some other cultures around the world deal with this period of time, because here in the Western world, less than 50 percent of us live near our family members, which I think is part of why this is such a tough period.

Fifteen to 20 percent of all pregnancies result in miscarriage, and I find this astounding.

In a survey, 74 percent of women said that miscarriage, they felt, was partly their fault, which is awful.

And astoundingly, 22 percent said they would hide a miscarriage from their spouse.

So using pictures like this, normally not more than 20 percent of the participants detect these tries.

So we managed to switch 90 percent of the participants' answers from left to right, right to left, their overall profile.

Yet 99 percent of trades on Swaptree happen successfully, and the one percent that receive a negative rating, it's for relatively minor reasons, like the item didn't arrive on time.

I can see that Rondoron has completed 553 trades with a 100 percent success rate.

In most low- and middle-income countries, for instance, the ratio of psychiatrists to the population is something like one for every one and a half million people, which literally means that 90 percent of the people needing mental health services will not get it.

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