How much water does it take to manufacture a sheet of paper?

January 29th, 2010 by admin under Environmental Solutions. 2 Comments.

Hard to believe but it takes 10 liters or 2.6 gallons of water cumulatively to produce one sheet of A4 (8.5″ x 11″) paper. Makes you think twice about printing or copying that email doesn’t it? For this and more surprising facts about water use Read More>>

2 Comments

Mary Mcmanus on February 2nd, 2010

Is the water required to make one sheet of paper recycled?

admin on February 2nd, 2010

Not sure. Here is an article that talks about the pollution caused by paper manufacturing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_recycling
Thanks for asking

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