Statistics:
- Each year, Wake county middle schools destroy 3.1 million sheets of paper. - That is killing around 210 trees - Each student used about 70-90 sheets of paper for the EOGs last year. - If we replace blank paper with a reusable option, (like dry erase boards) we can save around 240,000 sheets of paper. - Over 180,000 BLANK sheets of paper is wasted. Even if the paper is blank after the student uses it, it is still burned when it could be recycled. - Each ream of paper is about $7.99 each. Every year, we use about 6200 reams of paper. That means that Every year for just middle schools in Wake County, it costs $49,538 for Standardized Testing |