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Office
Paper
DO
Include:
DON'T
Include:
Carbon paper, diskettes,
transparencies, rubber bands, binder
clips or plastic.
Paper that has food residue on it.
Paper
towels & cups, toilet & face tissue or
napkins.
DID YOU KNOW?
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At least 38.9% of the
US waste stream is paper.
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Americans throw away
44 million newspapers every day. That's the
same as dumping 500,000 trees into landfills every
week.
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Americans use 85
million tons of paper every year. That's about
680 pounds per person per year. To make all
that paper we use more than a billion trees.
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Recycling one ton of
paper saves: 17 trees, 6953 gallons of water,
463 gallons of oil, 587 pounds of air pollution,
3.06 cubic yards of landfill space, and 4077
kilowatt hours of energy.
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If every household
reused a paper grocery bag for one shopping trip,
about 60,000 trees would be saved.
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