Average U.S. ****** Worker Uses 10,000 Sheets of Paper Per Year

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Average U.S. ****** Worker Uses 10,000 Sheets of Paper Per Year
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While digital media theoretically lessens the need for paper — everything from e-readers to online shopping (http://mashable.com/category/ecommerce?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) has the potential to cut down on paper usage — data shows that the average American still uses the equivalent of a 100-foot Douglas fir tree (http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html) each year.

For Earth Day (http://mashable.com/category/earth-day/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) on Tuesday, Catalog Spree and PaperKarma gathered information on the serious paper waste situation in the U.S. The data comes from the Clean Air Council and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/materials/paper/faqs.htm), the federal government's arm dedicated to human health and the environment.

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