• 17 trees
• 6,953 gallons of water
• 463 gallons of oil
• 3.06 cubic feet of land fill space
• 4,077 kilowatt hours of energy
• provides 5 times the jobs versus using virgin wood pulp
• prevents 587 pounds of air pollution

• Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates: 1 job
• Land filling 10,000 tons of waste creates: 6 jobs
• Recycling 10,000 tons of waste creates: 36 jobs

Every day Americans throw away 44 million newspapers. That's equivalent to dumping 500,000 trees into landfills each week

Recyclable Paper Products make up approximately 40% of trash in America.

Americans throw out about 85% of the office paper used. That's enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall twelve feet high, stretching from New York City of Los Angeles.

• Percent of the world's annual wood harvest used for the production of paper products - 37%
• Yearly amount of trees cut down to provide raw material for American paper pulp mills - 900 million
• Amount of trees taken to produce the Sunday edition of the New York Times - 75,000
• Recycling a stack of newspapers only 3 foot high - saved one tree. One tree alone can filter 60 pounds of pollutants from the air.

Annually, 27 million acres of tropical rainforest are destroyed (that's an area the size of Ohio). That translates to 74,000 acres per day, 3,000 acres per hour, and 50 acres per minute.

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