Save Paper, Sustainable Forest

Save Paper, Sustainable Forest ..

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Paper for our generation is something that has become common thing and everyday that we often put on paper without thinking about consequences. I try to show you, a few facts so we all understand the importance of reducing paper usage and recycling of used paper. Hopefully useful and we are more aware of the environment.

Production of paper:

1. Tree trunks of wood can produce abou 16 reams of paper

2. A trunk can produce the oxygen that needed to breathe for 3 people
To produce 1 ton of paper, it takes three tons of wood and 98 tons of other raw materials

3. Every hour, the world lost of 1732.5 hectares of forest cut down to become raw materials of paper

4. Paper industry worldwide using 35% of all commercial timber harvest each year

5. Paper industry spent 670 million tons of wood to produce 178 million tons of pulp and 278 million tons of paper and paperboard

So…Let us consider:

1. 1 ton of paper are equal 400 reams, equal 200,000 sheets

2. To produce 3 sheets of paper required 1 liter of water

3. To produce 1 kilogram of paper takes 324 liters of water (based on environment Canada)

4. 95% of paper made ​​from wood fiber

5. To produce 1 ton of paper produced carbon dioxide (CO2) about 2.6 tons or equal to the emissions that generated by the car for 6 months.

6. To produce 1 ton of paper, produced approximately 72,200 liters of liquid waste and 1 ton of solid waste

7. The paper industry is the 3^rd largest energy consumption in the world ( based on American Forest and Paper Association)

8. And for time being, Paper is not using for only writing paper, but packaging industry now uses 41% of all paper use

Recycling paper:

1. By doing 54 kg paper recycling, a tree trunk can be saved (Based on Government of Canada)

2. By Recycling 1 ton of paper, it saves approximately 17 trees (Purdue Research Foundation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1996)

3. Recycling process of paper uses 60% less energy than making paper from trees

4. Recycle 1 ton of paper saves 682.5 gallons of fuel and 7000 gallons of water and 4,000 kwh of electricity (Resource Recovery Center)

5. About 30% - 40% of paper, disposed from the packaging or packaging paper (The Recycler's Handbook, 1990)

6. And when the paper decompose, it will produce methane gas which is 25 times more harmful than CO2 (International Institute for Environment and Development, 1971)

Paper-saving tips at work:

1. Avoid printing documents or email

2. Write down a slogan "THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT!" with a capital letter, and paste it on the wall near the office or on the computer screen.

3. Use / printed paper back and forth. This action can save about 50% of paper usage

4. If we have to, print your document by 2 pages per sheet. The letter is much smaller, but still comfortable to read.

5. Put the draft document on the notice board. This is better than distribute as many copies of the document.

6. Collect the paper that has one empy side. Reuse the paper to print the document. Or reuse as a paper fax.

7. Avoid using the fax cover sheet, which often takes nearly a full page.

8. Reuse The envelope..!!! Part name of the recipient & sender can be rewriting with stickers or blank paper.

9. Buy a printer and copier that can print on both sides of paper automatically. And make sure everyone understands how to use it.

Do not forget, in every email we make, posts like, "Please do not print this e - mail Unless you really need to. Save trees! "

Paper-saving tips when shopping and other activities:

1. When need the pulse of mobile content , select an electronic one .Its save paper vouchers and avoid useless paper

2. While hanging out at a cafe or restaurant that uses paper cup sand plates for the pads, pads of paper return to the waiter. Tell them that we do not need it.

3. When hanging out at the shopping center, sometimes we’ve been given a new product promotional brochures. If interested to know, we can read it and After that,we can return the brochure back. We just brought home a brochure that we really need.

4. Avoid receiving bank account statement or phone bill in the sheets of paper sent by mail. Contact the customer service that we prefer information that can be viewed online

5. Invitations wedding or social gathering, send it by e-mail. It's cheaper and does not use paper.

However, if you have to make a wedding invitation in the form of paper, as much as possible to make a simple and does not use much paper. It is more cost-effective, whatever expensive wedding invitations will surely end up in the trash.