Tree Loss for Paper
Delivered February 25, 2020. Contributor: Alexandra Y.
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.
Research proposal:
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