Our Tree Appetite - 4.4 Trees per year

Did you know?

1 tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or 8,333.3 sheets
24 trees give you 1 ton of paper.
Source: http://www.conservatree.com/learn/EnviroIssues/TreeStats.shtml

The world consumes 300 million tons of paper each year
At 35% of the world's consumption, the US consumes 90 million tons of paper each year.
38% of paper comes from recycling.
This means 55.8 million tons of paper are sourced from fresh cut trees.
This means 1.3 billion trees are cut to feed America's paper appetite.
This means 4.4 trees are cut for each person living in the US every year!

Trivia:
The single oldest living thing on Earth is a tree, a 4,700 year-old bristlecone pine tree in Nevada. It was growing when the Egyptians built the pyramids.