17 Reams of Copy Paper Equals 1 Tree
How do you market your company? Most businesses use brochures, sales sheets, reports and a wide variety of printed materials. The paper that these items are printed on comes from trees. Fortunately, trees are a renewable source and more paper is being recycled every year. But how can you help the environment, conserve paper and stay in business all at the same time? The first step is to find out how much paper your company uses with its printed materials. A website called Conservatree has put together information with statistics related to printing and paper usage. Below is a brief summary you can use to calculate paper usage.
- 1 ream of copy paper (500 sheets) uses 6% of a tree
- Nearly 17 reams of copy paper uses 1 tree
- A 16-page brochure (5,000 copies) uses almost 5 trees
The next step is to create a dynamic new website and warehouse all of your marketing materials online. Sales sheets could become PDF files that you can link from your website or send to clients via email. Reports can come alive through Flash animation. Annual reports can be customized for each viewer with a database application. Think about the new generation of prospects coming into the market. With cell phones, laptops, and wireless connection, they are online gurus. So moving your marketing online isn’t just saving the planet, it’s good for your business. Create a new website and save a tree or two.
Scary numbers – well done on compiling and promulgating them. The web will help but paper is used for far more than ‘marketing’. Despite all the talk of the ‘paperless office’ and so forth the demand for paper continues to grow strongly. The answer? Tree-free paper – same quality, cheaper to produce and more environmentally friendly. Thank you.
I wonder how many trees get cut everyday…
Oh well, hope we can manage to plant some… By the way, I like the picture… Very nice shot… 
Thats insane. thanks for the stats I am wrighting a essay on going from paper to computers at our highschool to conserve paper. My teacher is sending it to the school board and super intendent… peace out
We also support these kinds of initiatives. Great to see commentary about it with some good suggestions for how businesses can turn it into an advantage.
hi, can i use your pic for my website. we r promoting ppl to get office automation done. we have to save trees we have to save the earth, nice blog