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We use 16,000 tons of newsprint a year and produce almost 13 million papers.

We recycle 95% of all solid waste generated in our buildings, including paper, film, and printing plates.

Each of our printing presses weighs 908 tons — the weight of 125 jumbo-sized African elephants.

The weight of the major structural steel in our North Creek facility is 3,000 tons (six million pounds) — about the same heft as 6,000 Seattle Seahawk defensive lines.

The North Creek facility is 64 feet at the tallest point — as high as the Great Sphinx pyramid in Egypt.

Each of our printing presses weighs 908 tons — the weight of 125 jumbo-sized African elephants.

A full roll of newsprint measures 46 inches in diameter, weighs about 2,700 pounds, and is over eleven miles long.

The newsprint warehouse has a capacity to store 2,900 rolls — 32,000 miles in all. You'd have to drive from Seattle to Spokane 107 times to equal that distance.