Posted on 08/06/2019 4:44:04 PM PDT by Libloather
I repeat: 500,000 trees. Killed. (That’s all U.S. Sunday newspapers combined.) What a bummer.
**SNIP**
What I found was bad news…
>> 500,000 trees must be cut down just to produce each week’s Sunday newspaper (all U.S. Sunday papers combined).
>> In total, newsprint consumption in the U.S. (2009) meant a loss of 95 million trees, generation of 126 billion gallons of waste water and emission of 73 billion pounds of greenhouse gases. Ouch!
>> Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
>> If all newspaper was recycled—including the daily papers—we’d save about 250 million trees each year.
>> About 65 percent of U.S. newsprint is sourced from ecologically important forests in the U.S. and Canada, including the Canadian Boreal Forest—a global treasure, the last frontier of northern forest wilderness. Very bad.
(Excerpt) Read more at elephantjournal.com ...
If only trees were something that grow out of the ground.
Like any other crop.
As thin as papers are now days, that’s really a waste.
Yes, why hasn’t print media exposed the awful wasteful non eco-friendly, behavior of the print media?
Except for toilet paper, trees are no longer used. The paper comes from bushes grown on farms specifically for this purpose.
They make it sound like they’re cutting down the Redwoods or something. Have these people never heard of fast growing pulpwood trees grown for the purpose?
How many stalks of corn are slaughtered each year for ethanol? It must be a horrific number.
I haven’t purchased or fully read a Sunday Paper in over a month of Sundays. And that is something I couldn’t imagine saying only 15 years ago!
I was raised in a family with home delivery of two news papers and numerous magazines.
Detroit News & Detroit Free Press. Life Mag, Look, Ladies Home Journal, Time & Newsweek. Catholic Dioceses News.
Highlights, Tiger Beat.
And cotton wood trees. Fast growing.
Even the prettiest flower needs dung to bloom.
9 Ways to Use Newspaper in the Home Garden
https://www.thespruce.com/use-newspaper-in-flower-garden-1315905
All those trees are replanted. It is likely the ones used for this weekend’s paper were planted 15-20 years ago. It’s like a farm with a slow growing crop.
Yeah, whenever I see numbers tossed around like that, I start thinking straws. You know, the made up number for some tween’s science project which is now a scientific accepted fact as to the number of straws that are used each year?
So I went digging... The half million trees for the Sunday paper appears to be a made up number from an environmental website which has since collapsed and first appears to have been bantered about in 1993. You know, when we were told to switch to plastic bags to save the trees.
Also, the LA Times at that point for the Sunday edition was a whopping 6.5 pounds, much more than the current average of just over 14 ounces.
I don’t know who or what the Elephant Journal is, but I’m guessing they are just making up stuff or doing the most casual of internet research.
How many trees die for globalust warning hysteria every day? Pamphlets, classroom materials, scripts for PSAs, earth day rallies, ticketing for conferences etc?
Renewable and it keeps the farmers employed.
If all newspaper was recycled—including the daily papers—
we’d save about 250 million trees each year.
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Damn after a few years we’d all have to be living in tree houses.
That’s IT! Impeach President Trump now.
Paper comes from Trees...
It takes an average of 5 liters of water to produce one piece of A4 paper.
93% of paper comes from trees.
50% of the waste of businesses is composed of paper.
To print a Sunday edition of the New York Times requires 75,000 trees!
http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/Paper-Waste-Facts
Sorry....I call bullsh*t
So, you have a number in mind?
“Yes, why hasn’t print media exposed the awful wasteful non eco-friendly, behavior of the print media?”
Too bad the wet noodles inside the Beltway won’t dare ask that question.
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