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Print and the Environment
Written by Seth Watts on 11/01/2010 5:48:35 PM
I had these facts sent to me by one of our paper companies, CPI. It's really interesting to see how much carbon printing creates versus online, I run a printing company and I was surprised!
Five key facts about paper manufacturing - for more visit www.twosides.info
• In managed forests, for every tree cut down, three to four are replanted
• It is estimated that there are 25% more trees in the developed world today than there were in 1901, and in Europe alone, the size of forests is increasing annually by an area equivalent to more than 1.5m football pitches
• Of the wood extracted from the world’s forests, 53% is used for energy production, 28% by sawmills and only 11% directly by the paper industry
• On average it takes 500 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity to produce 200kg of paper, the average amount of paper that each of us consume each year. 500kWh is equivalent to powering one computer continuously for five months or burning a 60W light bulb continuously for a year
• The paper industry is one of the biggest users of renewable, low-carbon energy with half the energy used to make paper in Europe coming from renewable sources
Source: Two Sides
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