VISUALIZING PAPER USAGE

10,000 Sheets of paper used a year by the average office worker.

334 POUNDSof paper is recovered for recycling from each person living in the United States.

HOW MUCH PAPER IS ACTUALLY BEING PRODUCED?

United Statesand CanadaIs the world’s largest producers of paper and paper products. Finland, Japan and Sweden are the next largest producers.

In 1997, the total weight ofworld paper and paperboard production was equivalent to

200,000 Volkswagen Beetles.

0

100

200

92MiLlion

208Million

tons of paper

126%

Increase in paperproduction overthe last 20 years.

Computer usage is notdecreasing the amount of paper we use.

HOW MUCH WOULD 120,000 POUNDS OF PAPER SAVE?

1,000Trees

22,800Gallons of Oil

OIL 420,000Gallons of Water

2,400,000Kilowatts of Energy

PAPER: THE PRICE YOU PAY

40%Percentage of time lost searching for files by a typical employee.

Each filing cabinet costs

$1,500 per year.Every 12 cabinets require an additional employee to maintain and operate.

18mins

Average time it takes to find a document.

-$20

-$125 per misfiled document.

(minimum up to $700)for each lost document.

Average cost to filea document.

-$350

70%

Percentage of today’s business that would fail within 3 weeks due to a fire or flash flood.

12secs

Every 12 seconds a document is lost by a large organization in the U.S.

Soon there will be 4 TRILLION documents stored by government and business agencies.

Source: http://www.thepaperlessproject.com/what-are-the-facts-about-paper/