How many sheets of paper does one tree produce?

Since a typical 500-sheet packet of the paper weighs 5 pounds, that’s 10,000 to 20,000 sheets per tree The United States produced about 20,700,000 tons of this paper last year, which by my reckoning (see below) takes 55 to 110 million trees, but we only recycle about 11,000,000 tons, or 53 percent. http://sierraclub.org/sierra/2014-4-july-august/green-life/how-much-paper-does-one-tree-produce?src=1pt&utm_source=greenlife&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter Article courtesy of Sierra Magazine/Ask Mr. Green by Bob Shildgen