How many tons of paper does a person use in their lifetime?

Question

or how many trees does a person use in their lifetime?

Answer 1

As many as they need.

Answer 2

it depends on the person. if the person always go to the toilet, he/she will use millions of paper but if he/she does not go to the toilet often, he/she will use a few million of paper. it depends on whether the person goes to the toilet often or not.

Answer 3

9,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00...

Answer 4

This is a bit tricky to answer, since the use of paper packaging has increased in the last twenty years - and that is less than a lifetime.   It will also vary significantly from country to country.

In 2006 in the United States, 4.6 lbs per day of waste were produced for each person.     Of that, about one third was paper.

I'll leave it up to you to decide how many days there are in a lifetime, to punch the numbers into a calculator, and to divide by 2000 (since there are 2000 lbs in a ton.)

Good luck.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

The answer for number of trees is too many! How many tons of paper used in a lifetime is complicated and varies depending on how many years you live, your occupation and what country you live in. Office workers consume more than the average person.  The answer will vary greatly from one country to another. In the United States, the current average is just under 750 lbs per person each year. So to figure this out for a lifetime, if you live to be 75 in the US, multiply  750lbs x 75 and divide by 2000(to get tons). The answer is just over 28 tons! (If paper consumption remains the same, you will have the answer!)(unless you are an office worker, then it will be higher) Exactly how many trees is not clear because it varies with the size of the tree. As I stated at the beginning, it is too many trees used per person to be good for the environment.