STARTLING STATISTICS • People, businesses, schools and other organizations gen erate, on average, 4.7 pounds of waste per person every day. • Schools and other education facilities often are among the largest waste generators in any city, county or state. • At least 40 percent of the typical school waste stream is paper (the largest single component of all school waste). • Every year, nearly 900 million trees are cut down to provide raw materials for U.S. paper and pulp mills. - webpage: https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/bmmbschoolrecycle2012.pdf - FACTS ABOUT PAPER AND PAPER WASTE • Mor e than 199 tons of paper has already been produced. • It takes an average of 5 liters of water to produce one piece of A4 paper. • 93% of paper comes from trees. • 50% of the waste of businesses is composed of paper. • To print a Sunday edition of the New York Times requires 75,000 trees! • Recycling 1 ton of paper saves aroun...