• 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)

• Average cost of a wasted page $0.06
• Average employee prints 6 wasted pages per day, that's 1,410 wasted pages per year!
• The average U.S. office worker prints 10,000 pages per year

• In 2004 the United States used 8 million tons of office paper (3.2 billion reams). That’s the equivalent of 178 million trees!
• In the United States, enough office paper is used each year to build a 10-foot-high wall that’s 6,815 miles long.

• Global paper products consumption has tripled over the past three decades and is expected to grow by half again before 2010.

• 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.
• Production of 1 ton of copy paper uses 11,134 kWh (same amount of energy used by an avg household in 10 months)

• Making one single sheet of copy paper can use over 13oz. of water– more than a typical soft drink can.
• Production of 1 ton of copy paper produces 19,075 gallons of waste water

• One ton of paper requires the use of 98 tons of various resources.
• In 2003, paper and paperboard accounted for 35 percent of the total materials discarded in the United States.
• Production of 1 ton of copy paper produces 2,278 lb of solid waste

• CO2 prevented if all Fortune 500 companies use GP= 6,311,610 tons
• 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!
• Production of 1 ton of copy paper produces 5,690 lb. of green house gases (the equivalent of 6months of car exhaust).

• In the U.S. we have lost 95 percent of our old growth forests.
• Old growth forests make up 16% of the virgin tree fiber used each year to make paper products.
• 4281 acres of rainforest are lost every hour worldwide
• It takes 3 tons of wood to produce 1 ton of copy paper.

• A single mature tree can release enough oxygen back into the atmosphere to support 2 human beings.
• 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.

• If you were to fill up the tank of your car with Printer ink, it would cost approx. $120,000.
• If you filled an Olympic-size swimming pool with ink it would cost $7 billion.

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