Comments on: We can save 100 million Trees this year!!! http://www.urbanwoods.net/company-news/we-can-save-100-million-trees-this-year/ beyond sustainable furniture Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:12:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: kenc http://www.urbanwoods.net/company-news/we-can-save-100-million-trees-this-year/#comment-210 kenc Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:31:04 +0000 http://www.urbanwoods.net/company-news/we-can-save-100-million-trees-this-year/#comment-210 some of your facts are totally inaccurate. While you may think, and some sites haver erroneously reported, the reality is the Yellow Pages industry doesn’t knock down any trees for its paper!!! Let me repeat that – they don’t need to cut any trees for their paper supply. Currently, on average, most publishers are using about 40% recycled material (from the newspapers and magazines you are recycling curbside), and the other 60% comes from wood chips and waste products of the lumber industry. If you take a round tree and make square or rectangular lumber from it, you get plenty of chips and other waste. Those by-products make up the other 60% of the raw material needed. Note that these waste products created in lumber milling would normally end up in landfills. Not only that, as wood chips decompose, they emit methane, a greenhouse gas closely associated with global warming. Paper manufacturing thus puts these chips to good use. Many paper providers will also use 5% or less of recycled directories in their paper creation. As a result, the EPA, not me, not the Yellow Pages industry, but the Environmental Protection Agency’s own numbers show that only 0.3% of the municipal solid waste stream comes from print Yellow Pages. Standard mail and newspapers account for 2.4% and 4.9% of that waste stream. some of your facts are totally inaccurate. While you may think, and some sites haver erroneously reported, the reality is the Yellow Pages industry doesn’t knock down any trees for its paper!!! Let me repeat that – they don’t need to cut any trees for their paper supply. Currently, on average, most publishers are using about 40% recycled material (from the newspapers and magazines you are recycling curbside), and the other 60% comes from wood chips and waste products of the lumber industry. If you take a round tree and make square or rectangular lumber from it, you get plenty of chips and other waste. Those by-products make up the other 60% of the raw material needed. Note that these waste products created in lumber milling would normally end up in landfills. Not only that, as wood chips decompose, they emit methane, a greenhouse gas closely associated with global warming. Paper manufacturing thus puts these chips to good use. Many paper providers will also use 5% or less of recycled directories in their paper creation.

As a result, the EPA, not me, not the Yellow Pages industry, but the Environmental Protection Agency’s own numbers show that only 0.3% of the municipal solid waste stream comes from print Yellow Pages. Standard mail and newspapers account for 2.4% and 4.9% of that waste stream.

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