
Digital/Paper Facts & Reasons to go with Digital
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Global paper use has grown more than
six-fold since the 1950’s.
- 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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