You're probably thinking, "What's the big deal? My company doesn't spend much on paper." But what most people don't realize is that the cost of buying paper is just the tip of the paper iceberg.

Few facts

• The average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of copy paper each year.
• The United States alone, which represents less than 5% of the world's population, consumes 30% of the world's paper.
• Over 40% of wood pulp goes toward the production of paper.
• Printing and writing paper equals about one-half of U.S. paper production.
• The costs of using paper in the office can run 13 to 31 times the cost of purchasing the paper in the first place!