Fun Facts & Activities

Recycling One Ton of Newsprint:

• Saves 601 kWh of energy
  Saves 1.7 barrels (71 gallons) of oil
  Saves 10.2 million Btu’s of energy
  Saves 4.6 cubic yards of landfill space
  Saves 7,000 gallons of water
• Recycled newspaper saves 34 to 60% of the total energy needed for virgin newsprint 10 million tons of newsprint is thrown away each year in the United States.  Approximately 65,000 to 75,000 trees are needed to produce paper for the Sunday edition of the New York Times.
• If everyone in the U.S. recycled only 10% of their newspapers each year, it would save 25 million trees.
• It takes roughly 17 trees 35 feet tall to produce one ton of paper.
• Americans buy about 65 million newspapers every day. 
• Nearly 4.5 of every ten U.S. newspapers are being recycled.
• Producing paper from recycled paper reduces air and water pollution by 50%.

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How to Make the Paper– ingredients
Old newspaper, mail, printer paper (avoid paper with a coating like magazine papers)
large bowl, warm water, blender, kitchen towel, screen* to strain the pulp
(*attach wire mesh or strong netting to a frame the size of the paper you want to make, and small enough to fit in your bowl)

• Shred or tear the paper to half fill your blender
• Add warm water to the top and blend until smooth
• Put contents into a bowl and mix with more warm water (amount of water effects thickness of paper)
• Dip the screen into the bowl so that the pulp collects evenly across the screen’s surface
• Let the water drain away and pat excess with kitchen towel
• Press another piece of kitchen towel against the pulp sheet and carefully peel away from the screen
• Allow to dry and then remove from the paper towel 

Enjoy and be creative, experimenting with different types of paper, glitter, confetti, dried flowers, food dye for color and herbs and fragrance!

^$GO GREEN GET GREEN ^$

By recycling with SP Recycling
Newspaper, Magazines, Catalogs, White Office Paper, Shredded Paper!