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Dear Families,
At school, your child has been taking part in a language arts and math program that teaches about paper recycling. Get into the recycling loop by reading the fun facts on this page. Then join in the fun by doing the interactive activity on the other side of this page with your child! | | | | | Did You Know? - The world's first paper was made from recycled material. Around A.D. 105, a Chinese court official used recovered rags and old fishing nets to create the first paper.
- A French scientist got the idea of making paper from wood fiber while observing wasps build their nests.
- Your recycling bin may contain products that have already been recycled. Recycled fiber goes into many of the projects we use every day, including cereal boxes, newspaper, notebook paper, and cardboard containers.
- Every day, U.S. papermakers recycled enough paper to fill a train of boxcars that is 15 miles long.
- Today, more than 50 percent of the paper consumed in the U.S. is being recovered for recycling. That works out to 342 pounds for every man, woman, and child in the U.S.
- Every day, American businesses use enough paper to circle the globe 20 times!
- The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
- The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.
- 27% of the newspapers produced in America are recycled.
- Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!
- Americans use more than 67 million tons of paper per year, or about 580 pounds per person.
- About 80% of what Americans throw away is recyclable, yet our recycling rate is just 28%.
- Paper products make up the largest part (approximately 40 percent) of our trash.
- Making recycled paper instead of new paper uses 64 percent less energy and uses 58 percent less water.
- Every day Americans recover more than 2 million pounds of paper! That's about 40 percent of the paper we use.
- More than 1/3 of all fiber used to make paper comes from recycled paper.
- Every Sunday, Americans waste 90 percent of recyclable newspapers. This wastes 500,000 trees!
- A new landfill generally costs more than an old one that has filled up. This is because it typically costs more to comply with new environmental regulations, to buy the land, to construct the landfill and to transport waste because new landfills generally are farther away than older ones.
Source: www.paperrecycles.org, http://www.resourcefulschools.org/facts.html
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