• Recycling wastepaper not only decreases air pollution emissions up to 73 percent, but uses 40 to 70 percent less water than converting virgin wood pulp.
• Recycling uses up to 70 percent less energy.
• Each ton of wastepaper recycled conserves about three cubic yards of landfill space. Currently, our refuse is buried in landfills, which are being burdened to over-capacity.
• Homasote building products, made from recycled paper, help in the conservation of more that 1,370,000 timber trees each year. They also eliminate more than 160,000,000 pounds of solid waste annually. Homasote board is also 100 percent environmentally safe, contributing no contaminates or pollutants to the atmosphere.