* An employee in a typical business uses 1.5 pounds of wastepaper each day?
* An employee in a typical business uses 1.5 pounds of wastepaper each day?
* Employees of financial businesses use more than 2 pounds each, per day?
* Every ton of paper that is recycled saves roughly 17 trees?
* A total of 75,000 trees are used to print the Sunday edition of the New York Times?
* Every day U. S. papermakers recycle the amount of paper required to fill a 15-mile long train of boxcars?
* The first paper merchant in the U. S. was Benjamin Franklin, who went on to help start up a total of 18 paper mills in and around Virginia?
* One tree is capable of filtering 60 pounds of air pollutants per year?
* At the end of the Civil war, estimates suggest that between one third and one half of all U. S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit?
Sources: Ecoverde, American Forest Products Association, Federal Reserve Bank of San Fransico,
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