• If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year!

• If you take a 15 year old tree and made it into paper grocery bags you would get about 700 paper bags. 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.

• 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.

• Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person.

• The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most of this is packaging and junk mail.

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