*If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags,
you'd get about 700 of them. A supermarket could use all of them in
under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket goes through
60,500,000 paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are in
the U.S.!!!
*The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and
other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000
trees per year!
*The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to
heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
* Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper
can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill
space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This
represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds
less of air pollution! **
* The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of
carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of
paper would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide.
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