8,333 1/3 Sheets of 100% Virgin Copier Paper Grow in Brooklyn
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) of 100% virgin copier paper uses 0.6 trees
- 1 tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or 8,333.3 sheets
- 1 ream (500 sheets) uses 6% of a tree (and those add up quickly!)
1 ton of coated, higher-end virgin magazine paper (used for magazines
like National Geographic and many others) uses a little more than 15 trees
(15.36)
1 ton of coated, lower-end virgin magazine paper (used for newsmagazines
and most catalogs) uses nearly 8 trees (7.68)
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