Johnson students are recycling paper!  Parents bring your newspapers, magazines, office paper, school paper, phone books and mail to the bin in the front school.  You will  be helping the environment, and our school receives money for our efforts!

Did you know?

The production of a ton of paper requires 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water
and more energy per ton than glass or steel.

Americans dump 180 million tons of garbage annually — more than 40% of which is paper.
 High-grade printing, copying and writing paper is the largest single component in a landfill.

Every year Americans use more than 67 million tons of paper
or 580 pounds per person.

Americans throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a
wall 12 feet high stretching from Los Angeles to New York.

Also, every day American businesses generate enough
paper to circle the Earth 20 times.

In addition, every year each American household receives an average of 1.5 tree's growth
of bulk mail advertising — commonly known as "junk mail.