Did you know that every single second, a tree is cut down for use in the U.S. magazine industry? In fact, according to San Francisco-based Conservatree, it takes 15 full-grown trees to produce one ton of magazine paper made from virgin fiber.
Scientists have estimated that human activity has degraded almost 80 percent of what remains of the planet's forests. Producing more virgin paper, which requires further harming our natural ecosystems, is not a sustainable solution to the growing global paper demand. However, a solution is within reach —using the vast reserves of recoverable paper that are not currently being collected and turned into recycled paper.
In fact, while old newspapers are recovered for recycling at a high rate in the United States (73 percent), only 25 percent of magazines are recycled from U.S. homes each year (or to put it the opposite way, about 4 billion magazines are not recycled each year). Recycled magazine paper can also be made from recovered printing-writing papers, such as office paper. The American Forest and Paper Association estimates that Americans currently collect only about 57 percent of printing-writing paper through recycling efforts. Conservatively estimated, at least 75 percent of all paper products are recoverable, which means that the United States, alone, could feasibly collect over nine million more tons of printing-writing paper annually. In other words, the nation is not at “peak recovered fiber... Read More
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