stay tuned.
Posted by Diana on October 16, 2007
In the United States, we use enough office paper each year to build a 10-foot-high wall that’s 6,815 miles long, or two and a half times the distance from New York to Los Angeles.
[Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, “Recycling Facts and Figures,” PUBL CE-163, 2002]
we don’t know if you realize this, folks, but that’s a lot of paper. stay tuned.
antioxexpress said
Interestingly, I recently came across a statistic that shows there is more forested land in America today than there was 100 years ago. It’s primarily because the logging industry and other industries that rely on wood as a primary building product (furniture companies, housebuilding, etc.) figured out a long time ago they needed to replant behind themselves when harvesting trees for their primary business product.
It’s also in a large part because we’ve developed early fire detection capabilities in particular to wild fires that may have been caused by lightning strikes and such. We have much more sophisticated fire fighting capabilities from on-the-ground techniques to from-the-air assistance. It’s been proven that a lightening caused fire 100 years ago could easily burn 100’s and 100’s of acres of forest without human ability to contain and/or control it. Now, however, that little wisp of the start of a fire can be detected quickly through thermal mapping and observation, and water drops made in remote areas. Even if the fire gets out of control, our ability to fight and contain it are vastly improved over thar of 100 years ago.
Yes, there are more forested areas today either because of replanting or preservation, and our current fire-fighting capabilities help us control forested area losses more effectively than in past generations. And what does this mean for you and I? It means more natural carbon dioxide to breathe to sustain human life. Viva human life!
“Mac”
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