VISUALIZING PAPER USAGE 10,000 Sheets of paper used a year by the average office worker. 334 POUNDS of paper is recovered for recycling from each person living in the United States. HOW MUCH PAPER IS ACTUALLY BEING PRODUCED? United States and Canada Is the world’s largest producers of paper and paper products. Finland, Japan and Sweden are the next largest producers. In 1997, the total weight of world paper and paperboard production was equivalent to 200,000 Volkswagen Beetles. 0 100 200 92 MiLlion 208 Million tons of paper 126% Increase in paper production over the last 20 years. Computer usage is not decreasing the amount of paper we use. HOW MUCH WOULD 120,000 POUNDS OF PAPER SAVE? 1,000 Trees 22,800 Gallons of Oil OIL 420,000 Gallons of Water 2,400,000 Kilowatts 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. 18 mins Average time it takes to find a document. -$20 -$125 per misfiled document. (minimum up to $700) for each lost document. Average cost to file a document. -$350 70% Percentage of today’s business that would fail within 3 weeks due to a fire or flash flood. 12 secs 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/