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Fast Green Facts

• 1 ream of paper = 6% of a tree and 5.4kg CO2 in the atmosphere.
• 3 sheets of A4 paper = 1 litre of water.
• by recycling one aluminium can you save enough energy to run a television set for three hours.
• by recycling one tonne of paper you save 13 trees, 2.5 barrels of oil, 4100kWh of electricity, 4 cubic metres of landfill and 31,780 litres of water.

• In SA 1.05 million tonnes of material was sent to landfill in 2005/06 – 70% of this could have been recycled.