If you work in an office but don’t recycle, you throw away an average of at least 1.5 pounds of high-grade recyclable paper every day. That’s tons of paper each day American workers are on the job. If you saved just one ton through reducing use or recycling, you could save:

17 trees
275 pounds of sulphur
350 lbs of limestone
9,000 lbs of steam
60,000 gal of water
225 kilowatt hours
3.3 cubic yards of landfill space


Source: Carnegie Mellon Green Practices

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