Paper Towel

Paper Towel


How many pieces of paper towel make does one tree supply?

The paper towel I am talking about, is the kind in restrooms that we usually use to dry our hands with.

one cord of wood will yield...

-1,000 pounds of toilet paper, or
-30 Boston Rockers, or
-12 dining room tables (each table seats eight), or
-7,500,000 toothpicks, or
-460,000 personal checks, or
-89,870 sheets of letter head bond paper (size 8 ½" s 11"), or
-61,370 standard #10 envelopes, or
-14,384,000 commemorative-size postage stamps, or
-1,200 copies of the National Geographic, or
-2,700 copies of the average daily paper (35 pages), or
-250 copies of the Sunday New York Times, or
-942 one-pound books, or
-the heating value of one ton of coal, or
-the heating value of 200 gallons of fuel oil