Tips & Trivia
1. Print-related business activities contribute over $1 trillion dollars to the US GNP.
2. Print-related business activities directly and indirectly employ over 10 million people in the US.
3. Recent US Department of Commerce figures indicate that paper and printing purchases represent between 5% and 15% of all corporate expenditures exclusive of labor.
4. The average US office worker uses over 10,000 sheets of printing and copying paper per year.
5. The average US office worker generates 2 lbs. of paper waste per day.
6. Per capita consumption of paper in the US is currently over 748lbs.
7. Developing nations, India and China, with their combined 2 billion inhabitants, consume less that 25 lbs. of paper per capita.
8. Paper consumption has increased six-fold over the past 50 years.
9. Paper and packaging waste make up over 40% of North American solid waste landfill.
10. Every pound of waste that business generates, whether it is toxic or not, is a drain on profitability, productivity and environmental performance.
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