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.
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.
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.
Sorry....I call bullsh*t
Yes and trees are a crop grown for many purposes. I live in a working forest. Areas are harvested at different times.
Heck, they'll probably print a special edition!
The paper companies re-plant trees for the sole purpose of cutting them down for pulp.
If there were no Sunday newspapers, those trees may have not existed in the first place because the paper companies would not have planted them years ago for harvest at a later date.
(I live in Maine, a state with fewer paper mills than it once had.
gosh, now i can feel all “virtuous” and everything: i haven’t bought a newspaper or magazine in decades ...
Do you know how many dinosaurs had to die for your plastic grocery bag?
Trees: America’s free standing renewable resource. Cut ‘em down, others, lots of others, grow right back where their predecessors were cut. It irks me to see our natural resources so immensely under utilized. Global warming: bah!