Producing
paper from recovered fibre consumes 50 per cent less energy than manufacturing
paper from virgin pulp, and the process also consumes 90 per cent less water.
Producing
one tonne of recycled paper saves:
31,780 litres of water
4100 kilowatt hours of electricity
75 per cent of chlorinated bleach
27 kilograms of air pollutants
13 – 24 trees
4 cubic metres of landfill
2.5 barrels of oil
Since European settlement, almost half of Australia's
forests have been cleared.
An area the size of the Australian Capital Territory is
logged every year in Australia. Over half of this wood is wood-chipped for
paper pulp.
It takes 24 trees to create one tonne of virgin office
paper (that is paper with no recycled content).
Australians use approximately 3.5 million tonnes of paper
and cardboard annually – enough to fill 160,000 large semi-trailers.
75 per cent of a tree harvested for paper does not
wind up as a paper product.
The pulp and paper industry is the world's fifth-largest
industrial consumer of energy and uses more water to produce a tonne of product
than any other industry.
For every 100 reams of recycled office paper that is
printed double-sided, two trees, more than one tonne of greenhouse gases and
almost a cubic metre of landfill space will be saved compared with 100 reams of
paper that is not recycled or printed double-sided.
A
single-sided, double-spaced document uses four times as much paper as a double-sided, single-spaced
document.
http://www.si.cm.uwa.edu.au/programs/recycling/paper/facts
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