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Tree Trivia or Tree-Via
- How we use wood in the United States: 44% lumber, 9% sheets of wood, 18% fuel, 29% paper.
- How we use paper in the United States: 44% paper board (cereal boxes and other cardboard), 30% printing and writing (office paper, computer paper, magazines, etc...), 14% newsprint, 7% tissue (tissues and toilet tissue), 5% packaging.
- It takes more than a billion trees to make the 85 million tons of paper Americans use every year.
- Reducing junk mail can save at least 100 lbs.
- Reusing grocery bags can save about 50 lbs.
- Recycling one ton of paper can help the Earth by saving: thousands of gallons of water, thousands of kilowatts of energy, 3 cubic yards of landfill space.
- By recycling all of our newspapers, we save over 500,000 trees each week. The average family can save between 100 and 200 lbs.
- Old growth forest trees such as redwoods grow taller than the Statue of Liberty, weigh as much as 800 school buses and live to be 3500 years old. They are logged or cut down to make decks, homes, and fences. It takes 3,000 years for a giant redwood to grow to 20-30 stories high. It takes two hours to cut one down.
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