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Recycling Facts - Paper
- Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees, 2
barrels of oil (enough to run the average car for 1,260 miles), 4,100 kilowatts
of energy (enough power for the average home for 6 months), 3.2 cubic yards of
landfill space, 7000 gallons of water, and 60 pounds of air pollution.
- Over ½ million trees are saved each
year by recycling paper in Boulder County.
- If every household in the U.S. replaced just one
roll of 1,000 sheet virgin fiber bathroom tissue with 100% recycled ones, we
could save: 373,00 trees, 1.48 million cubic feet of landfill space, and 155
million gallons of water.
- Recycled paper uses 60-70% less energy than
virgin pulp and 55% less water.
- The amount of wood and paper we throw away each
year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
- Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are
thrown away every year in the U.S.
- The construction costs of a paper mill designed
to use waste paper is 50-80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.
- In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than
90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space.
- If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save
about 250,000,000 trees each year!
- Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York
Times would save 75,000 trees.
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If every household
in the U.S. replaced just one roll of 1,000 sheet virgin
fiber bathroom tissue with 100% recycled ones, we could
save: 373,000 trees, 1.48 million cubic feet of land fill
space, and 155 million gallons of water.
- If we recycled all the newspapers printed in the U.S. on a typical Sunday, we
would save 550,000 trees every week– or about 26 million trees per year.
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•In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than
90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space.
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•The construction costs of a paper mill designed to
use waste paper is 50 - 80% less than the cost of a mill
using new pulp.
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•If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save
about 250,000,000 trees each year.
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•Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are
thrown away every year in the U.S.
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•4.5
Million tons of office paper is thrown away each year in the
U.S.
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•Producing recycled white paper
creates 74% less air pollution, 35% less water pollution,
and 75% less processed energy than producing paper from
virgin fibers.
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