PAPER FACTS
- EVERY DAY around 1,000 trees are felled for wood pulp to make paper.
- Wood pulp demand is de-foresting the forests of the world.
- Trees take from 25 to many hundreds of years to grow to harvestable status.
- Trees can only be harvested once. They are killed in the process.
- The land where the tree grew will not be productive for a minimum of 25 years
- The loss of forests is accompanied by loss of biodiversity.
- Life that not yet discovered, is being driven to extinction by clear-fell logging.
- In 2017 - 423.3 million metric tons of paper was consumed globally (Statistica)
- 40% of paper is made from recycled paper.
- 60% of paper is from “virgin” fibre – newly felled trees.