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Or clear cutting forests to print trade joe's marketing material that ends directly in the garbage can.

• overcast 10y ago
  Wood is a renewable resource, and most paper comes from tree farms, just like housing timber. Which is why the wood is so soft these days, compared to the old trees they used to clear cut. "According to the USDA Forest Service, four million trees are planted every day in the United States. Of this amount, the wood and paper products industry plants on average 1.7 million trees daily,1 excluding millions of additional seedlings regenerated naturally. In Canada, natural regeneration is supplemented by the planting of 600 million seedlings per year." "According to The State of America’s Forests, a report released by the Society of American Foresters, replanting and reforestation efforts have helped keep forestland stable. There are nearly 750 million acres of forests in the U.S. — about the same as 100 years ago. Annual net growth of U.S. forests is 36 percent higher than the volume of annual tree removals. Total forest cover in the U.S. and Canada basically remained the same from 1990 to 2005.3 Furthermore, less than one half of one percent of Canada’s forestland is harvested annually.4 Sustainable forests are also carefully managed to help prevent catastrophic damage from fires, disease and insects."
  • partycoder 10y ago
    Trees themselves may be renewable but soil composition/nutrients/hydration doesn't regenerate as quickly.
• microcolonel 10y ago
  Clear cutting is not a common way to harvest pulpwood, especially in North America.