What will happen if you waste paper?

Wasting paper isn't just the loss of another tree, but effect trickle down the line resulting in deforestation, soil erosion, resulting in more river pollution, affecting fish and wild life. The amount of energy used to produce one sheet of paper would surprise you. Information obtained from the Engery Infobook states that the amount of energy needed to make 500 sheets of copy paper was equal to 3.7 gallons of gasoline - from the oil and gas used to cut down the tree, haul them to the processing plants, then processing the wood into paper, then packaging and shipping to the stores where you purchase the paper at.) So please, next time, think twice before wasting paper. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Save the planet for the next generation.