Paper Recycling Facts:
-1 ton of 100% virgin (non-recycled) newsprint uses 12 trees
-At least 38.9% of the U.S. waste stream is paper.
-Americans throw away 44 million newspapers everyday. That’s the same as dumping 500,000 trees into landfills each week.
-If every household reused a paper grocery bag for one shopping trip, about 60,000 trees would be saved.
-Making one ton of recycled paper uses only about 60% of the energy needed to make a tone of virgin paper.
-One person uses two pine trees worth of paper products every year.
-Americans discard 4 million tons of office paper every year--enough to build a 12 foot-high wall of paper from New York to California.
-Every ton of recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oil.
-American’s throw out about 85% of the office paper we use.
-The production of a ton of paper requires 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water and more energy per ton than glass or steel.
-Every year Americans use more than 67 million tons of paper or 580 pounds per person.
-Every day American businesses generate enough paper to circle the Earth 20 times.
-An average American uses 465 trees to create a lifetime of paper.
-Recycling half the world's paper would free 20 million acres of forest land.
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