Reduce paper waste in the schools
August 25, 2009 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Fall, Green Living
With school starting up soon (or in some cases it’s already started) it’s important to consider the impact paper use in school has.
According to Conservatree, you can estimate that…
1 ton of uncoated virgin (non-recycled) printing and office paper uses 24 trees
1 ton of 100% virgin (non-recycled) newsprint uses 12 trees
A “pallet” of copier paper (20-lb. sheet weight, or 20#) contains 40 cartons and weighs 1 ton. Therefore,
1 carton (10 reams) …read more




