Paper Facts

The eco-friendly reason to move into Digital Publishing....

Global use of paper has grown more than six-fold since 1950. 

• One ton of uncoated virgin (non-recycled) printing/office paper uses 24 trees.
• One ton of paper = 400 reams = 200,000 sheets.
   
• So one tree makes only 16.67 reams of copy paper, being just 8,333 sheets of paper.
   
• Making paper uses more water per ton than any other product in the world.
   
• 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.
• One ton of paper requires the use of 98 tons of various resources and produces 2,278 lb of solid waste.
• In most western countries, paper accounts for up to 40 percent of all municipal solid waste.
   
• 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. 

• One fifth of all wood harvested in the world ends up in paper.

 
Source: The Worldwatch Institute.