Paper Facts

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Global paper use has grown more than six-fold since 1950. 

• One ton of uncoated virgin (non-recycled) printing and office paper uses 24 trees.
  One ton of paper = 400 reams = 200,000 sheets.
  1 tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or 8,333 sheets.
  
  
• One ton of paper uses 2 barrels of oil, 28,000 litres of water and 4,100kw hours of electricity. Enough energy to power the average home for 5 months.
  
  
• Making paper uses more water per ton than any other product in the world. Pulp and paper is the 5th largest industrial consumer of energy in the world
  
  
• One ton of paper requires the use of 98 tons of various resources and produces 2,278 lb of solid waste.
  
  
• One fifth of all wood harvested in the world ends up in paper.
  
  
• Pulp and paper is the 5th largest industrial consumer of energy in the world, using as much power to produce a ton of product as the iron and steel industry.
  
  
• In most western countries, paper accounts for up to 40 percent of all municipal solid waste.

    Source: The Worldwatch Institute.

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