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Paper Facts
  • 1 ton of paper = 400 reams = 200,000 sheets
  • 1 tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or 8,333 sheets
  • 1 ream (500 sheets) uses 6% of a tree (and those add up quickly)
Printing Facts
  • Average cost of a wasted page $0.06 (See footnote 2)
  • Average employee prints 6 wasted pages per day, that's 1,410 wasted pages per year! (See footnote 3)
  • The average U.S. office worker prints 10,000 pages per year (See footnote 3)
  • While 3 out of 4 office workers print from the Internet, 90% of people with a printer at home print Internet content (See footnote 4)
  • 56% of people ages 45-54 print pages from the Internet for their archives, and only 33% of people ages 18-34 do the same (See footnote 4)
Consumption
  • In 2004 the United States used 8 million tons of office paper (3.2 billion reams). That’s the equivalent of 178 million trees! (See footnote 5)
  • The U.S. is by far the world’s largest producer and consumer of paper. Per capita U.S. paper consumption is over six times greater than the world average. (See footnote 6)
  • In the United States, we use enough office paper each year to build a 10-foot-high wall that’s 6,815 miles long. That’s more than the distance from New York to Tokyo! (See footnote 7)
Growth
  • Global paper products consumption has tripled over the past three decades and is expected to grow by half again before 2010. (See footnote 6)
Energy
  • The U.S. pulp and paper industry is the second largest consumer of energy and uses more water to produce a ton of product than any other industry.(See footnote 8)
  • Production of 1 ton of copy paper uses 11,134 kWh (same amount of energy used by an avg household in 10 months. (See footnote 9)
Water
  • Making one single sheet of copy paper can use over 13oz. of water– more than a typical soda can. (See footnote 10)
  • Production of 1 ton of copy paper produces 19,075 gallons of waste water (See footnote 9)
Waste
  • One ton of paper requires the use of 98 tons of various resources.(See footnote 11)
  • In 2003, paper and paperboard accounted for 35 percent of the total materials discarded in the United States. (See footnote 12)
  • Production of 1 ton of copy paper produces 2,278 lb of solid waste (See footnote 9)
CO2
  • CO2 prevented if all Fortune 500 companies use GP= 6,311,610 tons (See footnote 13)
  • One hot-air balloon of 10m diameter contains about a ton of hot air - imagine seeing 6,311,610 hot-air balloons floating over the US - that's a lot of balloons! (See footnote 13)
  • Production of 1 ton of copy paper produces 5,690 lb. of greenhouse gases (the equivalent of 6 months of car exhaust).(See footnote 9)
  • Dumping paper in landfill adds methane to the atmosphere as it decomposes, with 20 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. (See footnote 14)
Forests
  • In the U.S. we have lost 95 percent of our old growth forests. (See footnote 15)
  • Old growth forests make up 16% of the virgin tree fiber used each year to make paper products. (See footnote 16)
  • 4281 acres of rainforest are lost every hour worldwide (See footnote 17)
  • It takes 3 tons of wood to produce 1 ton of copy paper.(See footnote 9)
Ink
  • If you were to fill up the tank of your car with Hewlett-Packard or Lexmark ink, it would cost $100,000 (See footnote 18)
  • If you filled an Olympic-size swimming pool with ink it would cost $5.9 billion. (See footnote 19)
Tree Facts
  • A single mature tree can release enough oxygen back into the atmosphere to support 2 human beings. (See Footnote 20)
  • Each person in the U.S. generates approximately 2.3 tons of CO2 each year. See Footnote 21)
  • If every American family planted just one tree, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere would be reduced by one billion lbs annually. This is almost 5% of the amount that human activity pumps into the atmosphere each year. (See footnote 22)
  • According to the USDA Forest Service, a tree generates $31,250 worth of oxygen, provides $62,000 worth of air pollution control, recycles $37,500 worth of water, and controls $31,250 worth of soil erosion, over a 50-year life span. (See footnote 22)

Footnotes
•1: www.conservatree.com
•2: Cefola, Jackie; Gold, Iris; Martiny, Larry; Mendelowitz, Jessica; Murray, Tom; Salerno, Tony. The Citigroup-Environmental Defense Partnership to Improve Office Paper Managment Citigroup-Environmental Defense. November, 2004
•3: Craig, Louisa. Retail Top European League of Paper Wasters Lexmark Paper Waste Press Release, 22 May 2006
•4: “Lexmark survey dispels commonly believed myths; Nationwide study reveals Internet's impact on paper use and provides glimpse of future printing environments.” Recharger Magazine, 2 Jan 2002 http://www.rechargermag.com/articles/33489
•5: Paulson, Raymond. "Green Procurement Requirements and the Use of 100% Post Consumer Fiber Paper." Organization: NADEP North Island; Environmental Program Office, 2005
•6: Sarantis, Heather. "Drew Power Point Business Guide to Paper Reduction." ForestEthics, September 2002 http://www.forestethics.org/pdf/reduce.pdf
•7: “Recycling Facts and Figures,” Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. PUBL CE-163, 2002 www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/aw/wm/publications/
•8: Taevs, Debra. “Recycling’s Pushed ‘Reduce, Reuse’ Out of Equation.” Portland Metro Sustainable Industries Journal, June 2005
•9: Environmental Defense Paper Calculator http://www2.edf.org/papercalculator/index.cfm
•10: "Clean Technologies in U.S. Industries: Focus on the Pulp and Paper Industry." United States-Asia Environmental Partnership, September 1997
•11: Hawken, Paul; Hunter, Amory L. “Natural Capitalism.” Little Brown & Co., September 1999
•12:“Municipal Solid Waste in the United States: 2003 Facts and Figures.” US Environmental Protection Agency, 2003 http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/pubs/msw05rpt.pdf
•13: "Environment and society: The results so far," BP website. http://www.bp.com
•14: Svoboda, Elizabeth. “Global Warming Feedback Loop Caused by Methane, Scientists Say.” National Geographic News, 29 August 2006 http://www.news.nationalgeographic.com
•15: Abromovitz & Mattoon, "Paper Cuts: Recovering the Paper Landscape." Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute 1999, p21
•16: http://www.earthday.net/finalEDNrealitycheck.pdf
•17: “Earth Day Reality Checks & How You Can Do Your Part,” University of Oklahoma Environmental Health and Safety Office Saf.T.Gram. 14.1, Spring 2007: P1.
•18: Said, Carolyn. "Ink Inc." SFGate, 26 July 2004: F-1. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/07/26/BUGL57SAL81.DTL
•19: McAliney, Mike. "Arguments for Land Conservation:Documentation and Information Sources for Land Resources Protection," Trust for Public Land, Sacramento, CA, December, 1993
•20: “Benefits of Trees.” Epsom & Ewell Borough Council 2004 http://www.epsom-ewell.gov.uk/EEBC/
•21: Moll, Gary; Young, Stanley. Growing Greener Cities: A Tree Planting Handbook. American Forestry Association, 1992
•22: USDA Forest Service Pamphlet #R1-92-100

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