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Paper Consumption

Paper Consumption. Vytautas Didysis gymnasium Klaipeda, Lithuania. Paper.

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Paper Consumption

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  1. Paper Consumption Vytautas Didysis gymnasium Klaipeda, Lithuania

  2. Paper Paper, thin sheets of compressed vegetable cellulose fibers, is used for writing and printing, for wrapping and packaging, and for a variety of special purposes ranging from the filtration of precipitates to the manufacture of certain types of building materials. Paper is a necessity in modern civilization, and the development of machinery for its high-speed production has been largely responsible for the increase in literacy and the raising of educational levels of people throughout the world.

  3. Industrialized nations, with 20 percent of the world's population, consume 87 percent of the world's printing and writing papers.

  4. To produce one ton of paper, 24 average trees must be cut.

  5. Each year, the world produces more than 300 million tons of paper. The first step in machine papermaking is the preparation of the raw material. The materials chiefly used in modern papermaking are cotton or linen rags and wood pulp. Today more than 95 percent of paper is made from wood cellulose.

  6. Paper accounts for 25% of landfill waste (and one third of municipal landfill waste).

  7. 42% of the global wood harvest goes to paper production, a proportion expected to grow by more than 50 percent in the next 50 years.

  8. Paper pulp exports from Latin America from forests converted into plantations and from the harvesting and conversion of tropical and subtropical forests are expected to grow 70 percent between 2000 and 2010.

  9. Most of the world's paper supply, about 71 percent, is not made from timber harvested at tree farms but from forest-harvested timber, from regions with ecologically valuable, biologically diverse habitat.

  10. Tree plantations host about 90 percent fewer species than the forests that preceded them.

  11. Paper recycling Paper recycling is the process of recovering waste paper and remaking it into new paper products. There are three categories of paper that can be used as feedstocks for making recycled paper: mill broke, pre-consumer waste, and post-consumer waste. Mill broke is paper trimmings and other paper scrap from the manufacture of paper, and is recycled internally in a paper mill. Pre-consumer waste is material that was discarded before it was ready for consumer use. Post-consumer waste is material discarded after consumer use, including OM (old magazines), OTD (old telephone directories), and RMP (residential mixed paper).Paper suitable for recycling is called "scrap paper".

  12. In 2003, only 48.3% of office paper was recovered for recycling.

  13. Recycling paper does not only saves those trees from saw, but also saves about 26500 liter of water and 4100 kilowatt hours of electricity.

  14. Ways to reduce paper consumption:

  15. Here are ways that we can reduce our use of paper products. Purchase inexpensive dish towels or cut up old towels and use those in place of paper towels. Purchase inexpensive wash cloths or cut up old towels and use those for small spills and for cleaning little faces. Washcloths will make wonderful baby wipes. Just use plain water for newborns, or create your own baby soap, baby oil and water solution and add it to a spray bottle. Then spray the washcloth before using the cloth to clean up messes. Rinse and launder the cloth. If you are squeamish about big messes, just use the washcloths for wet diapers. Don't let paper plates and cups into the house. If you are entertaining and don't want to use your regular plates, invest in some plastic ones that can be used over and over again. There are a lot of great designs for these plates and cups, especially during the summer season. Use newspaper to clean your windows instead of paper towels. I know it sounds weird, but it works and does not leave newsprint on the window. Take advantage of all of the paper that already comes into your house for drawing, writing lists and printing. In a typical week, we get about seven notices from the school. Most of these notices are printed on one side of the page. Most of the time when we have something to print, we can use the blank side of a notice to serve the purpose. Use junk mail to write out grocery lists, phone messages and other notes. How much money do you spend on paper products?

  16. Ways To Reduce Paper Use In Your Home Or Office. Use shredded paper as protective padding when shipping boxes. We packed our Christmas gifts surrounded by old shredded financial documents instead of using packing peanuts. Be sure to use both sides of each piece of paper. While this probably won’t be possible on formal work documents, for nearly everything else it should be fine. Make notepads out of “once-used” paper. Cut each sheet into 4 and then make a stack held together by a staple. We have these all over the house! Think before you print. Check your document once, check it twice. No use in printing something just to find a typo right after printing! Get your name off the mailing lists. I have talked about this before, but it is a biggie - some estimates say that seven hundred million trillion tons of junk mail is sent out in the US each year. There are services that will remove you from lists for a fee, but you can do it yourself by going to Direct Marketing Association, OptOutPrescreen.com, or CatalogChoice.org. Why pay someone money to do what you can do yourself? Reuse file folders and envelopes over and over. No need to throw them away; just cross the name out and write another one on it! Print only what you need. If you absolutely have to print something from the internet, print only the page(s) that you need. You can select which pages you want prior to printing. The above being said, you can also save web pages/articles/documents/receipts as PDF files. Any receipt I get is saved as a PDF and put in a folder on my computer called “Receipts”. To make a PDF from a document on an Apple computer, just go to print it like you normally do, but look for the “Save As PDF” selection instead of pressing “Print”. Reformat your documents to reduce the size of the margins. There is a movement afoot called “The Small-Margin Movement” which aims to get the standard margins in Word reduced from 1.25″ to .75″, resulting in about 1.14 trees saved for each ton of paper used for printing. Reduce the size of any images you have to print. Not only will it save paper, but it will also save you ink cartridges.

  17. Half the world's forests have already been cleared or burned, and 80% of what's left has been seriously degraded..

  18. Thank you for your attention.

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