Amazing Facts about Paper Recycling!
Americans recycle much more than we send to landfills.
 Most of an average household’s waste—including paper, paper grocery bags, corrugated boxes, cans, and bottles—can be recycled. Food scraps and yard waste can be composted.
Nearly 70% of the 24 billion newspapers published in the U.S. each year are recovered for recycling. When you recycle your used paper, paper mills use it to make new paper products.
Kids are helping to get recycling programs started. They visit Town Hall, make speeches, write letters to the editor and get things done!
Nearly 45% of all the paper Americans use is recovered for recycling. America's forest & paper companies are committed to recovering 50% of all the paper Americans use. You can help by recycling your used paper today!
Paper collected for recycling must always be separated from "contaminants" such as plastic wraps, glass, or food waste.
Enough paper is collected for recycling each year to make a box-car train 7,600 miles long.
45 million tons of paper were recovered in the United States in 1998—an average of 336 pounds per person.
Each and every day, Americans recover for reuse and recycling almost 247 million pounds of paper.
84% of all Americans are recycling used paper at curbside or recycling drop-off sites.
Nearly 218,000 tons of shredded paper is used each year for animal bedding.
In the U.S., more than one third of the fiber used to make new paper products comes from recycled paper.
The sturdy brown or white boxes we use to pack things in are called corrugated boxes. They have a layer of paper— which has been corrugated and looks ruffly—glued between two more flat pieces of paper. More than 70% of all corrugated boxes are collected for recyling.
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