Harsh Facts of the Week
More than 2 billion books, 350 million magazines, and 24 billion newspapers are published annually.
A typical United States office worker uses 10,000 sheets of paper each year, which equates to four million tons of paper used annually.
Approximately 2.6 billion holiday cards are sold yearly in America. Collectively, they could fill a football field ten stories high.
In 2008, paper and paperboard made up 31% of municipal waste, compared to 12% for plastics.
How much paper do you use? Would you consider yourself wasteful?
Most importantly: how can you reduce your paper usage? Read today’s Ecofriendly Economics to get some tips.
Source:
http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html
