# Dead trees
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-trees/68488
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [June 12, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-trees/68488 "2001-06-12T03:05:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-trees/68488/1 "2001-06-12T03:05:47Z")
My office always jokes about being tree-killers, because we’re a very paper-intensive practice (patent prosecution). A question came up the other day - how much paper do you get out of one tree, anyway?
I’m sorry if this has been done before. I tried to search, but do you know how many threads there have been that used the words “dead,” “tree,” and “paper”?
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### Author:  [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2001, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-trees/68488/2 "2001-06-12T03:08:34Z")
If you’ve not noticed, trees are all different sizes.
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### Author:  [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-trees/68488/3 "2001-06-12T03:59:52Z")
According to the [American Forest and Paper Association](http://www.afandpa.org/products/products.html) one cord of wood will yield:
[quote]
[ul]
[li]7,500,000 toothpicks[/li][li]1,000 - 2,000 lbs. of paper (depending on the process)[/li][li]61,370 #10 envelopes (standard)[/li][li]4,384,000 commemorative-size postage stamps[/li][li]30 Boston rockers[/ul][/li][/quote]
According to the [_Britannica_](http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=26676&tocid=0) “a tree with a usable height of 40 feet and a circumference of 75 inches will contain about one cord of wood” and a cord is 128 cubic feet.
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### Author:  [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-trees/68488/4 "2001-06-12T05:58:12Z")
Didn’t you know that **THEY** said back in the **70’s/80’s** that we would have a paperless society by the **late 90’s**? Of course, that was back when we thought that you typed with a typewriter and didn’t have a clue about what could be turned out with a computer/word processor and one little printer.🙂