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

75%

16%

Greece

66%

20%

13%

Germany

62%

28%

Bangladesh

54%

45%

India

51%

28%

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Malaysia

51%

31%

11%

Australia

49%

26%

17%

Poland

48%

30%

12%

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Unknown

47%

28%

15%

the United Kingdom

46%

24%

19%

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Pakistan

14%

46%

17%

20%

Nigeria

11%

46%

31%

Singapore

10%

46%

28%

14%

Sri Lanka

41%

33%

Canada

40%

28%

26%

the United States

11%

39%

31%

16%

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Romania

33%

41%

16%

the United Arab Emirates

20%

30%

25%

Indonesia

28%

14%

the Philippines

17%

23%

37%

21%

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