Paper facts

1. 70% less energy is required to recycle paper compared with making it from raw materials

2. Over Christmas, 83 square kilometres of wrapping paper will end up in UK rubbish bins, enough to cover an area larger than Guernsey

3. The average person in the UK gets through 38kg of newspapers per year

4. Paper can be recycled up to six times before the tiny fibres it is made from get too short to hold together

5. It takes 24 trees to make one tonne of newspaper

6. To grow enough trees to provide the amount of paper Britain uses each year you would need a forest the size of Wales

7. World Paper Consumption has tripled in the last 30 years

8. Recycled paper produces 73% less air pollution than if it was made from raw materials

9. In 2000, Germany recycled 70% of its waste paper

10. It takes 75,000 trees to print the Sunday edition of the New York Times.

Source: Material Recycling Week, September 7 2007