Climate change calculator


Calculate how you help the fight against climate change using ANF AC technology

 

Supporting the environment and fighting climate change

 

Every sheet of paper you use has an environmental cost

 
 

How many trees does it take to produce 1 tonne of paper?

 

Did you know that global paper consumption is 258 million tonnes per year?

Every year, 4 billion trees are cut down worldwide to make paper.
To produce one tonne of virgin paper, 2 to 3.5 tonnes of trees are required, or an average of 28 to 49 trees.

 
 

How many litres of water does it take to make paper?

 
 
A pack of 500 sheets of the traditional 80 grams weighs 2.5 kg, so each sheet weighs 5 grams.
 
 

How much oxygen does a sheet of paper give me?

 
 
Did you know that one tree provides the oxygen consumed by 3 people in a day?
 
 

How much chlorine dioxide does it take to make one sheet of paper?

 
 
To make the paper immaculate white, the paper industry is the third largest purchaser of chlorine dioxide bleach, which is highly polluting and generates dioxin, which is carcinogenic, mutagenic and teratogenic.
 
 

How much energy consumption does a sheet of paper require?

 
 
Did you know that the paper process accounts for more than 10% of the total energy consumed by the whole industry in Spain?
 
 

How much does paper-based administration cost me?

 
 
The cost of product, transport, storage, printing, archiving and handling, presupposes 0.5 euros for each sheet of paper. In the case of paper invoices, burofax, notary, etc., the costs rise exponentially.
 
 
The Spanish Manufacturers Association ASPAPEL estimates that each Spaniard consumes an average of 136kg of paper. The European average is 125kg and the Asian average is 28kg.
115 billion sheets are printed annually on our planet.