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• The average pine tree yields approximately 8,333 sheets of standard photocopy paper.  (Earth Day Canada)
  1 tonne of paper equals 200,000 sheets
• In Canada, almost 2 million acres of forest is cut per year. On average, 65 per cent of the logging goes to pulp and paper. (Greenpeace Canada)
• The amount of paper and wood thrown out each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years
• If all newspaper was recycled, we could save about 25,000,000 trees a year
• A glass bottle would take 4,000 years to decompose and even longer if it’s in a landfill
• Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour
• Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it

• It takes 3 tonnes of wood to produce 1 ton of copy paper
• In 2003, Canadians used almost 3 tonnes of paper compared with 2 tonnes two decades earlier
• Global paper products consumption has tripled over the past three decades
• On average, each person generates one tonne of waste each year
• To create just one kilogram of consumer goods, manufacturers produce five kilograms of waste.
• About one-third of an average landfill consists of packaging material
• The average American uses seven trees a year in paper wood and other products

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