Greening Government, Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Recycling Paper Facts

Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees, 2 barrels of oil (enough to run the average car for 1,260 miles), 4,100 kilowatts of energy (enough power for the average home for 6 months), 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, 7000 gallons of water, and 60 pounds of air pollution.
Over ½ million trees are saved each year by recycling paper in Boulder County.
If every household in the U.S. replaced just one roll of 1,000 sheet virgin fiber bathroom tissue with 100% recycled ones, we could save: 373,00 trees, 1.48 million cubic feet of landfill space, and 155 million gallons of water.
Recycled paper uses 60-70% less energy than virgin pulp and 55% less water.
The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50-80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.
In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space.
If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.

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If every household in the U.S. replaced just one roll of 1,000 sheet virgin fiber bathroom tissue with 100% recycled ones, we could save: 373,000 trees, 1.48 million cubic feet of land fill space, and 155 million gallons of water.
If we recycled all the newspapers printed in the U.S. on a typical Sunday, we would save 550,000 trees every week– or about 26 million trees per year.
•In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space.
•The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 - 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.
•If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year.
•Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.

•4.5 Million tons of office paper is thrown away each year in the U.S.

•Producing recycled white paper creates 74% less air pollution, 35% less water pollution, and 75% less processed energy than producing paper from virgin fibers.

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