It's true!  If you take each piece of paper American businesses generate each day and lay them end to end you can circle the earth 20 times, or 498,031 miles!  That's over 181,000,000 miles per year.  That's enough paper to circle the earth 7,300 times.

• Conserve our valuable natural resources - Every year more than 900 million trees are cut down to provide raw materials for American paper and pulp mills.
• Save energy - Each ton of paper reduced can save 380 gallons of oil and 4,000 kilowatts of energy.
• Save clean air and clean water - One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year and each ton of paper reduced can save 7,000 gallons of water.
• Save landfill space - Each ton of paper reduced can save 3 cubic yards of landfill space.