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Paper Usage Facts:

  • Since 1982, production of office paper has grown 60%.
     
  • North American businesses generate approximately 1 trillion new pieces of paper every year.
     
  • In 1997 the total world paper and paperboard production was 299,044 metric tons. It would take about 200,000 Volkswagen Beetle cars to equal this weight.
     
  • A wall about 12 feet high, stretching from New York to Seattle could be built with the paper that businesses throw out each year.
     
  • According to Hewlett Packard, email, which was supposed to reduce the amount of printed paper, resulted in a 40% increase in printing volumes.
     
  • In the last 20 years, the combined usage of today’s top ten paper users has increased from 92 million tons to 208 million, which is a growth of 126%. So the use of computers is not slowing the amount paper we use.
     
  • To fill a four-drawer filing cabinet costs about $25,000 including the time to generate, process and deal with the paper.
     
  • Approximately 3% of documents are misfiled, which translates into another $120 per document to retrieve them.
     
  • North Americans sent approximately 65 billions faxes in 1997.
     
  • The U.S. consumption of paper and paperboard in 1999 was approximately 354 kilograms (about 800 pounds) per person.
     
  • Paper consumption in the U.S. will grow from 43.7 to 65.6 million tons between 1995 and 2015.

 

eBook Paper Usage Facts:

  • eBooks don't use ANY PAPER AT ALL. Now that's an improvement.

 

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