How Paper Recycling Works?

via www.printingchoice.com

Today about half of the paper in America gets recycled after it’s been used. That’s 53.5 million tons – or 1,070,000,000,000 lbs – of paper a year.

But have you ever wondered how your greasy, ketchup-stained Big Mac wrapper can actually end up as a Social Studies textbook? The graphic above shows how it works.