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Confidence votes 39. According to Recycle Now Schools.com website, paper waste for secondary school students it is approximately 22kg or 48.4 lbs and for primary school students, approximately 45kg or 99 lbs (per academic year, per student).
This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year! The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years. Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S. Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person.The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year.bout one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material! Every year, each American throws out about 1,200 pounds of organic garbage that can be composted. The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year.