Which resource used to be greatly consumed by the photo processing industry before the age of digital photography?

oil

silver

cadmium

zinc

Photography used 31% of the silver consumed in 1998. By 2010, it dropped to 7%.

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Answers by country

the Netherlands

70%

17%

11%

Greece

58%

23%

11%

Republic of Ireland

52%

17%

29%

Australia

50%

21%

19%

110

Poland

49%

29%

12%

12354

Germany

49%

43%

India

48%

29%

11%

951

Unknown

47%

28%

15%

the United Kingdom

46%

25%

17%

356

Malaysia

46%

35%

13%

France

11%

44%

22%

Singapore

43%

32%

16%

Nigeria

10%

42%

34%

12%

150

Pakistan

14%

42%

24%

17%

119

Ghana

40%

44%

16%

the United States

10%

39%

31%

16%

988

the United Arab Emirates

16%

35%

22%

Canada

32%

31%

26%

Sri Lanka

12%

31%

37%

12%

the Philippines

15%

26%

38%

19%

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