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Research Outline

Prepared for James C. | Delivered February 25, 2020

Tree Loss for Paper

Goals

The goal is to determine how many trees are cut down each day globally to make both toilet paper and office paper.

Early Findings

  • It takes about 24 trees to make one ton of office paper.
  • Up to 160,000 trees are cut down per day globally, and a significant portion of those are used to make paper.
  • Using one ton of recycled paper can save about 17 trees from being cut down.
  • Approximately 27,000 trees are cut down for toilet paper every day.
  • America uses approximately 15 million trees worth of toilet paper every year.
  • One tree can make about 100 pounds of toilet paper.
  • Americans use 20% of the world's toilet paper supply.
  • In America, only 2% of toilet paper sales come from recycled toilet paper.