Eliminate toilet paper. All those trees killed.
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.
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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 ...
Exactly right - see my post 60.
I sent the same information to my son’s school years ago and told them to stop scaring the children.
I’m fighting hedge and locust trees in the pasture every year. I’d be more than happy for a the NYT to come over and make fishwrap out of them, I wouldn’t even charge them all that much.
For each 500K they cut down they plant a million.
Yes but without that paper what will people use to wipe their butts?
Eliminate toilet paper. All those trees killed.
And 1,000,000 are planted to replace them. Leftists are just dumb.
JoMa
One of my favorite Joe Jackson tunes.
It has aged well.
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