1 tree how many sheets of paper

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More stories about: forests , lifestyle. Related Stories. That Wide-Eyed Look. Six ways to inspire awe in children with math and nature. Information from Recycling Revolution. Recycling at USI. Paper Recycling Facts. To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, , trees must be cut down. Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75, trees. If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about ,, trees each year!

If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,, trees a year. If you had a year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd get about of them. But it was the best number anyone had, so it became the number everyone used to calculate number of trees saved by recycled paper, or number of trees cut to make virgin paper, no matter what type of paper they were talking about.

Paper is made from a mix of types of trees. Some are hardwood, some are softwood. In addition, some are tall, some old, some wide, some young, some thin.

Many of the "trees" used to make paper are just chips and sawdust. So how can one talk about a "typical tree"? And do numbers calculated 30 years ago still apply to today's much more efficient paper industry?