How Much Wood?
It takes
the wood from a 100-foot tree to keep the average American supplied
for a year with wood products. Every year each of us uses on average: |
- 613 pounds
of paper products
- 200 square
feet of 1" thick lumber
- 87 square
feet of plywood
- 59 square
feet of insulation board, particle board, and hardboard
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How Much Wood
Do You Use? |
| If that 100-foot
tree is 18 inches diameter, has a crown spread of 60-70 feet, and
is 30 years old, it: |
- Weighs
about 41,000 pounds
- Has roots
that weigh 1,300 pounds
- Grew 3,600
pounds of leaves over its lifetime
- Returned
200 pounds of nutrients to the soil
- Took up
more than 5 million gallons of water from the soil and transpired
it into the air
- Gave off
6,000 pounds of oxygen
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That's a
Big Tree! |
| It takes land,
air, water, sun, and time to grow wood. Then it takes technology
to make the impressive quantities of things that can be made from
a cord of wood.
A cord of wood equals a pile of wood 4 feet long,
4 feet tall, and 8 feet wide -- and contains about 80 cubic feet
of solid wood.
One cord of wood yields - |
- 7,500,000
toothpicks
- 1,000
to 2,000 pounds of paper (depending on the process)
- 942 one-pound
books
- 61,370
envelopes
- 4,384,000
postage stamps
- 460,000
personal checks
- 89,870
sheets of paper
- 1,200
copies of National Geographic
- 2,700
copies of the average daily paper
- 250 copies
of the Sunday New York Times
- 30 rocking
chairs
- 12 dining
room tables (one table seats 8)
|
From Only
One Cord
Of Wood! |
Building an
average home uses about 10,000 board feet of lumber -- equivalent
to 20 cords.
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