SBA Green Team Tip of the Week (2/9/09)

Newspaper Recycling Information - From The Earth Works Group's The Recycler's Handbook
(courtesy of the PSU Sustainability website: http://www.pdx.edu/sustainability/pr_recycling_facts.html)

* Today, 62 million newspapers will be printed in the U.S., and 44 million will be thrown away. That means the equivalent of about 500,000 trees will be dumped into landfills this week.
* The largest component of trash in landfills is newspapers (14% by volume).
* According to Clean Ocean Action, recycling a 36-inch tall stack of newspaper saves the equivalent of about 14% of the average household electric bill.
* The average person generates 8 pounds of newspaper in a month.
* One person uses two pine trees worth of paper products each year.
* Newspaper pulp starts out as 99% water and 1% fiber.
* Americans throw away the equivalent of more than 30 million trees in newsprint each year.
* If you recycled the New York Times every day for a year, you would prevent 15 pounds of air pollution. If everyone who subscribes to the New York Times recycled, we'd keep over 6,000 tons of pollution out of the air.

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