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GreenPrint In the U.S. we have lost 95% of our old growth forests. Help preserve the last 5% by saving paper! www.printgreener.com 11:33 AM August 28, 2008

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Old growth forests make up 16% of the virgin tree fiber used each year to make paper products. Save the old trees! www.printgreener.com 08:51 AM August 27, 2008
Dumping paper in a landfill adds methane to the atmosphere as it decomposes, with 20 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. 09:27 AM August 25, 2008
Production of 1 ton of copy paper produces 5,690 lbs. of greenhouse gases (the equivalent of 6 months of car exhaust). www.printgreener.com 09:12 AM August 22, 2008
If all Fortune 500 companies used GreenPrint, 6,311,610 tons of CO2 would be prevented. www.printgreener.com 09:39 AM August 21, 2008
The production of 1 ton of copy paper produces 2,278 lbs. of solid waste. Heavy. www.printgreener.com 09:35 AM July 29, 2008
In 2003, paper and paperboard accounted for 35% of the total materials discarded in the U.S. Don't let your paper become a statistic! 04:48 PM July 28, 2008
Seems pretty silly and wasteful: One ton of paper requires the use of 98 tons of various resources. www.printgreener.com 09:42 AM July 25, 2008
The production of 1 ton of copy paper produces 19,075 gallons of waste water. That's a lot of wasted water! www.printgreener.com 10:09 AM July 24, 2008
Making one single sheet of copy paper can use over 13oz. of water, which is more than a typical soda can. Save paper, save water! 10:15 AM July 23, 2008
The production of 1 ton of copy paper uses 11,134 kilowatts, which is the same amount of energy used by an average household in 10 months. 08:48 AM July 22, 2008
2nd largest consumer of energy: The U.S. pulp and paper industry, which uses more water to produce a ton of product than any other industry. 09:53 AM July 18, 2008
Global paper products consumption has tripled over the past three decades and is expected to grow by half again before 2010. 11:52 AM July 15, 2008
The U.S. is by far the world’s largest consumer of paper. Per capita, our consumption is over six times greater than the world average. 10:31 AM July 14, 2008
In 2004 the U.S. used 8 million tons of office paper (3.2 billion reams). That’s the equivalent of 178 million trees! Prevent paper waste. 09:51 AM July 11, 2008
3 out of 4 office workers print from the Internet, and 90% of people with a printer at home print internet content. That's a lot of pages! 11:37 AM July 10, 2008
The average U.S. office worker prints 10,000 pages per year. Don't let this be you. www.printgreener.com 10:27 AM July 09, 2008
The average employee prints 6 wasted pages per day, which is 1,410 wasted pages per year! www.printgreener.com 09:35 AM July 08, 2008
The average cost of a wasted page is $0.06. This may seem like a small number, but over time wasted pages add up fast. www.printgreener.com 11:29 AM July 07, 2008
One ream of paper (500 sheets) uses 6% of a tree. That adds up quickly, especially at a large corporation! Save paper, save trees. 01:08 PM June 27, 2008

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