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Parents - how recycling junk mail protects the environment

Consider this:

  • Paper recycling reduces the need for raw material (trees), uses less energy than producing products from scratch and paper is easily recycled. Paper makes up approximately 38% of U.S. solid waste.

  • It can take as many as a half a million trees to produce our Sunday newspapers each week.

  • Every ton of paper made from recycled materials saves 17 trees, 6.953 gallons of water, 463 gallons of oil, 587 pounds of air pollution, 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space and more than 4,000 kilowatt hours of energy.

  • Every person in the US receives the junk mail equivalent of 1.5 trees a year. If 100,000 people stopped receiving junk mail, they could save 150,000 trees annually.

  • Each year, every tree you help save can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air.

    • To learn more about the benefits of recycling visit crra.org.