Waste Paper Recycling Facts By Recycling 1 ton of paper you save: 17 trees 6953 gallons of water 463 gallons of oil 587 pounds of air pollution 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space 4077 kilowatt hours of energy Junk Mail Americans receive almost 4 million tons of junk mail  a year. About 44% of the junk mail is never opened. Every person in the US receives junk mail that represents the equivalent of one and a half trees a year. If only 100,000 people stopped receiving junk mail  we could save up to 150,000 trees annually. If a million people did this, we could save up to a million and a half trees.