Paper!
Every Sunday, 500,000 trees are used to produce the 88% of newspapers that are never recycled.
Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper each year. About 680 pounds per person.
Offices discard over 4 million tons of office paper every year. That is enough to build a 12 foot high wall of paper from New York to California.
Americans use 15 billion paper cups per year.
Starbucks uses 1.5 billion paper cups per year.
For each 500 phone books recycled, we save 7,000 gallons of water; 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space; 17 to 31 trees; and 4,100 kilowatts of electricity, enough power to serve an average home for 6 months.
Source: Green Dimes.com
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