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Mark Neumann: Could I just add that that would save 290,000 trees in the United States of America if we were able to do that? It takes…

On the recordSeptember 23, 1997
Could I just add that that would save 290,000 trees in the United States of America if we were able to do that? It takes 293,000 trees to provide the paper necessary to send out those eight billion pages. It is staggering the amount.
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Mark Neumann
Wisconsin

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Discussing the environmental impact of paper usage in the U.S.

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