Many of us have the natural tendency to just hit "ctrl+p" or "file ... print" when we want to print something from our computers. Webpages, although available online all the time, are being printed all the time to show colleagues or family members. Sometimes when you print, however, you will get the site's footer (alone) at the top of the final page.
This is a wasted piece of paper and ink. You certainly would have omitted that page if you had known it was going to print all on it's lonesome, yes? Well, change your routine. Go to "Print Preview" first and you will get to see how it will all layout on paper. Then when you actually print, you can specify the pages to be printed. If it's a 3 page document and the footer is alone on the 3rd page, you can tell your printer to print pages 1-2.
There are 300 million people in the US, imagine on average each of us does this once a year (a seriously minor undertaking) - that's 300 million sheets of paper or 3727 TREES using this calculation.