Amazing Paper Facts

 

Americans throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall 4 metres high stretching from Los Angeles to New York City.

100 million trees are cut down every year to make the paper for “junk mail”. One-half of junk mail is thrown away unopened and unread.

Recycling half the world’s paper would free 20 million acres of forestland.

Every Sunday 500,000 trees could be saved if everyone recycled their newspapers.

You would make only 700 paper bags out of a 15-year old tree.

Every day business generates enough paper to circle the earth 20 times.

Recycling a 1 metre stack of newspaper saves a 10 metre pine tree.

The production of a ton of paper requires 17 trees.