The eco-friendly reason to move into Digital Print....
Global use of paper has grown more than six-fold since 1950.
Source: The Worldwatch Institute.
- One ton of uncoated virgin (non-recycled) printing/office paper
uses 24 trees.
- One ton of paper = 400 reams = 200,000 sheets.
- So one tree makes only 16.67 reams of copy paper, being just
8,333 sheets of paper.
- Making paper uses more water per ton than any other product in
- One ton of paper uses 2 barrels of oil, 28,000 litres of water and
4,100kw hours of electricity. Enough energy to power the average
home for 5 months.
- One ton of paper requires the use of 98 tons of various resources
and produces 2,278 lb of solid waste.
- In most western countries, paper accounts for up to 40 percent of
all municipal solid waste.
- Pulp and paper is the 5th largest industrial consumer of energy in
the world, using as much power to produce a ton of product as
the iron and steel industry.
- One fifth of all wood harvested in the world ends up in paper.