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Wednesday, 23 July 2008
How many trees are wasted on disposable paper products? PDF  | Print |  E-mail

If every household in the United States replaced just one box of virgin fiber facial tissues (175 sheets) with 100% recycled ones, we could save 163,000 trees.

If every household in the United States replaced just one roll of virgin fiber toilet paper (500 sheets) with 100% recycled ones, we could save 423,900 trees.

If every household in the United States replaced just one roll of virgin fiber paper towels (70 sheets) with 100% recycled ones, we could save 544,000 trees.

If every household in the United States replaced just one package of virgin fiber paper towels (250 count) with 100% recycled ones, we could save 1 million trees.

 
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