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It takes 24 trees to produce one ton of uncoated, non-recycled printing and office paper, and four million tons of copy paper is used every year. This means that in the United States alone, we consume the equivalent of about 96 million trees per year, covering thousands and thousands of acres, just to satisfy our office paper needs. This obviously has significant implications to forest degradation, not to mention the huge inputs of chemicals, energy, and water needed in the manufacturing process. Additionally, a mature tree stores 13 pounds of CO2 per year.

Not only is a “paperless” organization being more eco-friendly, but it is also benefiting from reduced costs by reducing paper purchases, decreasing storage space for filing cabinets, avoiding postage costs, reducing long-distance phone charges for faxes, avoiding manual search and delivery of documents, automating many business processes, and lowering the energy costs of operating office machines. Save time, save money, save forests, and help your organization be more efficient with Paperless Productivity.

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Trees are ‘carbon sinks’, they remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. The largest and oldest trees remove the most CO2 from the atmosphere.

One tree removes 1 ton of CO2 from the atmosphere every year, or 100 tons during a 100 year lifetime. Many trees live for much longer, and some trees live over 1000 years.

Each tree on average produces 17 reams of paper. Therefore, each ream of paper is about 12 pounds of CO2.

The U.S. paper industry produces 83 million tons of paper, emitting 19 million tons of CO2.
Each year, 23 million tons of paper (28%) is used as copy and print paper, 7 billion reams, 40.5 Million trees, clear cutting an area half the size of Texas.

One ream of paper produces 6.5 pounds of CO2 in the industrial process. Producing one ream of paper reduces CO2 tree absorption by 12 pounds per year. Excluding transportation and shipping, one ream of paper generates 18.5 pounds of CO2.

One ream of paper weighs approximately 5 pounds. The average person consumes an estimated 123 pounds of paper each year, 28% of which for printing and copying, or 7 reams of paper per person.

The world paper consumption for prints and copies is equal to 1.1 billion trees, 190 billion reams of paper, or 1.6 billion tons of CO2, 17% of worldwide CO2 emissions. Over 70% of the pulp used to make paper comes from forest, only 30% from tree farms.

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