Advertisement oop Skip to Content One might suspect we talk about red tape in the same way we talk about luck Author of the article: • Ontario Farmer • (Getty Images) We use adhesive tape to hold our worldly possessions together, some 55 billion square meters of it a year. Yes, someone does actually keep track of this. Some of it is supposedly red, and nasty. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or tap here to see other videos from our team.