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General Paper Facts By Recycling 1 ton of paper you save: 17 trees 6953 gallons of water 463 gallons of oil 587 pounds of air pollution 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space 4077 Kilowatt hours of energy How many consumer products will one cord of wood yield????? 1,000 pounds of toilet paper, or 30 Boston Rockers, or 12 dining room tables (each table seats eight), or 7,500,000 toothpicks, or 460,000 personal checks, or 89,870 sheets of letter head bond paper (size 8 ½" s 11"), or 61,370 standard #10 envelopes, or 14,384,000 commemorative-size postage stamps, or 1,200 copies of the National Geographic, or 2,700 copies of the average daily paper (35 pages), or 250 copies of the Sunday New York Times, or 942 one-pound books, or the heating value of one ton of coal, or the heating value of 200 gallons of fuel oil Other resources that are good substitutes for wood in the production of paper Paper is now produced from kenaf, hemp, wheat straw, banana stalk, organic cotton, sugarcane, even denim scraps and recycled U.S. currency. The first newsprint The first newsprint was created from linen and rags. The rags were bought in bulk from Chicago and Milwaukee, and treated for hours before being used in the newsprint production. What is the term "Mill Broke" referring to in the papermaking industry? Paper mills collect their internal paper and pulp waste and reuse it in other paper making processes. The waste is known as mill broke. Paper made from it is technically not recycled paper at all as it has never previously reached the public. What is the difference between Thermo-Mechanical Pulping and Chemo-Thermo-Mechanical Pulping in the papermaking process?? Thermo-Mechanical Pulping (TMP) is a variation on the process that softens the wood chips with steam before they are ground, leaving more whole fibers intact. Its use is effectively limited to softwoods, whereas Chemo-Thermo-Mechanical Pulping (CTMP) extends the process to hardwoods by running sulfur-based chemicals through the wood before steaming. These techniques are ingenious and effective, except that chemicals removed from wood and organic sulfur compounds are often simply discharged by the mills directly into the ocean. Such emanation can be effectively treated and made safer through special processes, but it is only recently that paper manufacturers have begun to incorporate these processes into their routines.

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