How many sheets of paper can be made out of the average tree?

Question

People are always like "You're killing a tree" when there's not a whole lot of text on it. I was just wondering how many sheets of paper someone like say Georgia Pacific can make out of the average tree they use to make paper.

Answer 1

"But let’s assume that the following paper products have been produced using 100 percent hardwood.
A cord of wood is approximately 8 feet wide, 4 feet deep, and 4 feet high. A cord of air-dried, dense
hardwood (oak, hickory, etc.) weighs roughly 2 tons, about 15-20 percent of which is water.
It has been estimated that one cord of this wood will yield one of these approximate quantities
of products:
• 1,000-2,000 pounds of paper (depending on the process)
• 942 100-page, hard-cover books
• 61,370 No. 10 business envelopes
• 4,384,000 commemorative-sized postage stamps
• 460,000 personal checks
• 1,200 copies of National Geographic
• 2,700 copies of an average daily newspaper
Source: A Tree for Each American, American Forest & Paper
Association, Washington, DC"

But the question is actually much more complex than that, so check the link for all the info!

Answer 2

the problem about this questions is are u considering the waste of the scrap paper? if u consider an average tree cut into rectangle top face 11x8.5 x however feet the tree is. and shrink that to 1/3rd (the other 2/3 of the tree are water) you really don't get much paper out of a tree. the trimming process in creating paper also need to be considered. to make a wild estimate i would say for a feet around 30 ft high and 3 feet in diamater you can get maybe 5000 to 7000 sheets of A4 computer printing paper.