Did You Know? Eco-Chic Green Fact #4

It takes 28% less energy to recycle than to produce paper from scratch.   Paper accounts for 40% of solid waste in the united States, which is about 72 million tons annually. If every household replaced one roll of regular toilet paper with one recycled post-consumer waste roll,424,000 trees would be saved.

A single tree will absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime.

About lakeerieartists

Paula Atwell is an artist, author, and owner of Lake Erie Artists Gallery. She is fascinated by green technology, and eco chic green fashion, and loves to find new ways to go green.