Environment

You CAN positively affect the environment. After being shredded, your paper is pulped at paper mills, where the paper is turned into other paper products, such as paper towels, toilet paper, cardboard, corrugated boxes, etc. This recycling process will help preserve our environment. Per 1 ton (2000 lbs.) of your shredded paper, you save:
  • 17 trees saved
  • 7,000 gallons of water saved
  • 81 cubic feet of landfill space saved
  • 3 barrels of oil (1 barrel equals 42 gallons)
  • 4,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity (enough energy to power the average home for 6 months).

Interesting Facts
  • The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of paper would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide.
  • The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!
  • The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
  • When you smell a dump, what you're actually smelling is the paper in the dump!
  • Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
  • In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space.
  • In 1993, nearly 36,000,000 tons of paper was recovered in the U.S.--twice as much in 1980.
  • The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.
  • The highest point in Ohio is "Mount Rumpke," which is actually a mountain of trash at the Rumpke sanitary landfill.

DON'T JUST SECURE YOUR COMPANY'S CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS. HELP SECURE THE ENVIRONMENT AS WELL