Living Tree Paper | Pulp & Paper Facts

Living Tree Paper | Pulp & Paper Facts Interesting facts about the ecology and costs of paper production in the present...

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• Producing pulp and paper casts a long ecological shadow beyond its impacts on the world's forests. Converting trees into paper uses large amounts of water, energy and chemicals and can generate vast amounts of air and water pollution.
  
  
• The pulp and paper industry is the fifth largest consumer of energy, accounting for 4 percent of all the world's energy use.
  
  
• The pulp and paper industry uses more water to produce a ton of product than any other industry."