Recycling Junk Mail

Paper Recycling Facts

• Every Sunday Americans trash rather than recycle about 90% of their recyclable newspapers. This wastes about 500,000 trees.
• If everyone in the U.S. recycled just 10% of their newsprint, we would save the equivalent of about 25 million trees a year.
• One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air a year.
• One ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees, almost 7,000 gallons of water, and over 3 cubic yards of landfill space.
• The average American uses 650 lbs of paper each year.
• If all that paper was recycled – 100 million tons of wood could be saved!