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%

12%

Greece

58%

23%

11%

Germany

53%

39%

Australia

51%

24%

17%

100

France

50%

21%

India

49%

29%

11%

871

Poland

48%

29%

12%

11783

Malaysia

48%

32%

13%

the United Kingdom

47%

24%

18%

312

Unknown

47%

28%

15%

Singapore

45%

29%

16%

Pakistan

14%

44%

23%

16%

109

Ghana

43%

37%

18%

Nigeria

41%

34%

14%

104

Romania

40%

33%

20%

the United States

11%

39%

31%

16%

918

Canada

37%

27%

29%

Sri Lanka

13%

33%

13%

the United Arab Emirates

21%

30%

26%

21%

the Philippines

14%

27%

38%

20%

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